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<div>== by Nelson Maatman ==<br />
<br />
As a young child I was very sociable, but as I grew older, what I now recognize was anxiety, took over. It started with a weird incident when I was 9 years old. We, as a class, were told to look over another class of 6 year olds and my classmates responded saying I was weird and started laughing. ''I was bullied in school and became more shy and introverted. I started seeing psychologists which reinforced the belief that I was weird.''<br />
<br />
I didn't have the necessary knowledge and verbal skills to accurately explain what I felt and why. I fell down the Rabbit Hole and it took me almost two decades to climb out, just to fall into another.<br />
<br />
The first time I had butterflies more significant than a crush was on holiday in France when I was 11. A gorgeous suntanned 13-year-old boy from Belgium, with brown curly hair, who I can still remember vividly, caught my attention. There was no doubt in my mind, I was gay. Back at school my 8th grade teacher was an openly gay man. How lucky was I for having a gay role model right after figuring out I was gay myself. Sadly reality was more confusing and complicated than I was able to cope with. <br />
<br />
Seeing how I felt like the only gay kid in my world I did what any kid growing up at that time would do: search for peers on the internet. It's not what I found. Instead my first meet was with a man in his late 50s with an interest in prepubescent boys. He didn't lie about that when he send me a message. But since he was not a scary man jumping from the bushes I didn't think he was hostile and decided to meet up with him anyway. I was hoping he would be able to share some wisdom. Maybe he could even introduce me to other gay boys. <br />
<br />
That's of course not what happened.He gave me a DVD with videos of what he called "boys playing ping-pong". I was very much excited over the boys my age and older. It felt wrong and exiting at the same time. I had suffered from [[compulsive behavior]] from a very young age but since they involved security they where not identified as such. I would feel like I had to run up the stairs, I would check behind curtains and if doors and windows where secure, but the weirdest probably was that I was scared to be in the bathtub after pulling the plug. But nobody of course knew about that one. I was seen as a scared child and as I withdrew more I was even misdiagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum.<br />
<br />
Child psychologist mistook my disinterest in a mandatory psychology exam for [[autism]]. Obsessions and compulsive behavior had a grip on my life. But [[obsessive and compulsive]] intrusive thoughts are very hard to identify since I was terrified to disclose them.<br />
<br />
I was starting to think I was like the older man from the dating site. I had [[intrusive thoughts]] about raping children that would very much disturb me. I did not have the knowledge or skills to understand and identify the difference between an intrusive thought about rape and a rape fantasy. A rape fantasy is an enjoyable thought about having sex with someone against their will. I was terrified of committing such a crime and the unwanted thoughts I had about them where almost exclusively about fleeing and hiding after committing such crimes. To me they where not sexual or enjoyable at all. But since they had a sexual and criminal theme I did not disclose them. I would disclose other disturbing and intrusive thoughts to people, including therapists. <br />
<br />
After lots of therapy things went from bad to worse and I was diagnosed with a [[Schizo-typical Personality Disorder]], a disorder related to schizophrenia. I was hospitalized twice, but mostly learned to adjust to the narrative. <br />
<br />
I was hanging out on the streets with a guy my age I really liked. We ran into a group of other teenagers and my friend started interacting with them. I experienced, what I now understand to be, severe social anxiety. I was 17 and a 14-year-old boy asked me to buy him a pack of smokes. I was really anxious and did what he asked. My friend however thought I was feeling anxious because I was nervous for liking the boy. He told me he thought I was a pedophile. It shook me to my core. This on top of intrusive thoughts about rape made me wrongfully self identify as a pedophile. <br />
<br />
I immediately sought out therapy but this again turned counter productive. Normal [[therapists]] where too disturbed by the intrusive thoughts and specialists where so focused on sexual abuse prevention they failed to try to identify what it was that I was feeling. Everyone was focused on what they saw as paranoid and delusional thoughts. The obsessive thoughts, like for example swallowing and choking on a fag as I would take a drag, were ignored. I started [[avoiding places with children]]. I'd go around a few blocks to avoid passing by a playground or school. <br />
<br />
Eventually I would avoid going outside during the day altogether. I found another alternative therapists who made things worse. As I was walking the street with him he noticed I would look away if children passed by. He told me to not be scared and just look. It just worsened my anxiety.<br />
<br />
While looking for non-therapeutic solutions to my anxiety, I talked to the most famous pedophile activist in the Netherlands in hopes of finding a way to achieve inner peace. He warned me about [[violence]] from [[antis|other people]]. I started thinking the anxiety I felt, which I thought was stress and fear, came from an external source: a [[hostile society]]. Since the world would not believe I didn't want sex with children I thought I needed the world to accept to accept people who do want that: Pedophiles. I needed to change society to not be hostile towards me.<br />
<br />
From here on my story goes from bad to worse. But the whole world was witness to that train-wreck. Here's what you don't know: I always avoided being around children. I didn't want to risk anything happening. <br />
<br />
Then one day I couldn't return home and decided I had to leave. <!-- ?? we need details here--><br />
<br />
I left for Frankfurt international airport without a plan. I asked for international flights to countries I could go without a visa. He suggested Mexico City. A return flight would cost me €350. I expected desserts and excruciating heat, tacos, parties with salsa music, colorful art. I jumped on that plane and found something else, something better: I found out who I am. [[Incel|I had barely had sex with anyone]] except for a double timing friend, who I felt was the love of my life, for more than a decade. <br />
<br />
In Mexico however I went on Grindr and found what I really wanted: Handsome Latino gay guys. I had what I experienced to be huge feelings for very much adult guys. Feelings I knew I had never had for a minor since I was an adult. Of course these relationships where very dramatic because of how new and big these feelings where for me. I went on Grindr and hooked up almost daily, I'd go to a bathhouse SODOME and would hook up with as much as 7 guys in a night. I had found my hedonistic dream. I caught feelings badly for one, but when he found out who I was it ended. Then I started dating another guy, until eventually I got snatched up by a [[Christian fundamentalist]] who [[planted]] printed (what year is this?) [[child pornography]] of girls(!) on me. <br />
<br />
I hope that's not where my story ends, but for the last 15 months I have been awaiting trial for a [[fabricated case]]. I was happy for a few months but I guess the universe doesn't want me to be happy. Still, I'm still happier and have more sex than I had two years ago. So even a Mexican shit hole prison isn't the worst my life had to offer so far. But I don't think I deserve what life threw at me.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Essay:_How_having_childhood_onset_OCD_lead_me_to_believe_I_was_a_pedophile&diff=22452Essay: How having childhood onset OCD lead me to believe I was a pedophile2023-07-29T04:26:29Z<p>Vizzi: </p>
<hr />
<div>== by Nelson Maatman ==<br />
<br />
As a young child I was very sociable, but as I grew older, what I now recognize was anxiety, took over. It started with a weird incident when I was 9 years old. We, as a class, were told to look over another class of 6 year olds and my classmates responded saying I was weird and started laughing. ''I was bullied in school and became more shy and introverted. I started seeing psychologists which reinforced the belief that I was weird.''<br />
<br />
I didn't have the necessary knowledge and verbal skills to accurately explain what I felt and why. I fell down the Rabbit Hole and it took me almost two decades to climb out, just to fall into another.<br />
<br />
The first time I had butterflies more significant than a crush was on holiday in France when I was 11. A gorgeous suntanned 13-year-old boy from Belgium, with brown curly hair, who I can still remember vividly, caught my attention. There was no doubt in my mind, I was gay. Back at school my 8th grade teacher was an openly gay man. How lucky was I for having a gay role model right after figuring out I was gay myself. Sadly reality was more confusing and complicated than I was able to cope with. <br />
<br />
Seeing how I felt like the only gay kid in my world I did what any kid growing up at that time would do: search for peers on the internet. It's not what I found. Instead my first meet was with a man in his late 50s with an interest in prepubescent boys. He didn't lie about that when he send me a message. But since he was not a scary man jumping from the bushes I didn't think he was hostile and decided to meet up with him anyway. I was hoping he would be able to share some wisdom. Maybe he could even introduce me to other gay boys. <br />
<br />
That's of course not what happened.He gave me a DVD with videos of what he called "boys playing ping-pong". I was very much excited over the boys my age and older. It felt wrong and exiting at the same time. I had suffered from compulsive behavior from a very young age but since they involved security they where not identified as such. I would feel like I had to run up the stairs, I would check behind curtains and if doors and windows where secure, but the weirdest probably was that I was scared to be in the bathtub after pulling the plug. But nobody of course knew about that one. I was seen as a scared child and as I withdrew more I was even misdiagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum.<br />
<br />
Child psychologist mistook my disinterest in a mandatory psychology exam for autism. Obsessions and compulsive behavior had a grip on my life. But obsessive and compulsive intrusive thoughts are very hard to identify since I was terrified to disclose them.<br />
<br />
I was starting to think I was like the older man from the dating site. I had intrusive thoughts about raping children that would very much disturb me. I did not have the knowledge or skills to understand and identify the difference between an intrusive thought about rape and a rape fantasy. A rape fantasy is an enjoyable thought about having sex with someone against their will. I was terrified of committing such a crime and the unwanted thoughts I had about them where almost exclusively about fleeing and hiding after committing such crimes. To me they where not sexual or enjoyable at all. But since they had a sexual and criminal theme I did not disclose them. I would disclose other disturbing and intrusive thoughts to people, including therapists. <br />
<br />
After lots of therapy things went from bad to worse and I was diagnosed with a Schizo-typical Personality Disorder, a disorder related to schizophrenia. I was hospitalized twice, but mostly learned to adjust to the narrative. <br />
<br />
I was hanging out on the streets with a guy my age I really liked. We ran into a group of other teenagers and my friend started interacting with them. I experienced, what I now understand to be, severe social anxiety. I was 17 and a 14-year-old boy asked me to buy him a pack of smokes. I was really anxious and did what he asked. My friend however thought I was feeling anxious because I was nervous for liking the boy. He told me he thought I was a pedophile. It shook me to my core. This on top of intrusive thoughts about rape made me wrongfully self identify as a pedophile. <br />
<br />
I immediately sought out therapy but this again turned counter productive. Normal therapists where too disturbed by the intrusive thoughts and specialists where so focused on sexual abuse prevention they failed to try to identify what it was that I was feeling. Everyone was focused on what they saw as paranoid and delusional thoughts. The obsessive thoughts, like for example swallowing and choking on a fag as I would take a drag, were ignored. I started avoiding places with children. I'd go around a few blocks to avoid passing by a playground or school. <br />
<br />
Eventually I would avoid going outside during the day altogether. I found another alternative therapists who made things worse. As I was walking the street with him he noticed I would look away if children passed by. He told me to not be scared and just look. It just worsened my anxiety.<br />
<br />
While looking for non-therapeutic solutions to my anxiety, I talked to the most famous pedophile activist in the Netherlands in hopes of finding a way to achieve inner peace. He warned me about violence from other people. I started thinking the anxiety I felt, which I thought was stress and fear, came from an external source: a hostile society. Since the world would not believe I didn't want sex with children I thought I needed the world to accept to accept people who do want that: Pedophiles. I needed to change society to not be hostile towards me.<br />
<br />
From here on my story goes from bad to worse. But the whole world was witness to that train-wreck. Here's what you don't know: I always avoided being around children. I didn't want to risk anything happening. <br />
<br />
Then one day I couldn't return home and decided I had to leave. (???? we need details here)<br />
<br />
I left for Frankfurt international airport without a plan. I asked for international flights to countries I could go without a visa. He suggested Mexico City. A return flight would cost me €350. I expected desserts and excruciating heat, tacos, parties with salsa music, colorful art. I jumped on that plane and found something else, something better: I found out who I am. I had barely had sex with anyone except for a double timing friend, who I felt was the love of my life, for more than a decade. <br />
<br />
In Mexico however I went on Grindr and found what I really wanted: Handsome Latino gay guys. I had what I experienced to be huge feelings for very much adult guys. Feelings I knew I had never had for a minor since I was an adult. Of course these relationships where very dramatic because of how new and big these feelings where for me. I went on Grindr and hooked up almost daily, I'd go to a bathhouse SODOME and would hook up with as much as 7 guys in a night. I had found my hedonistic dream. I caught feelings badly for one, but when he found out who I was it ended. Then I started dating another guy, until eventually I got snatched up by a Christian fundamentalist who planted printed (what year is this?) child pornography of girls(!) on me. <br />
<br />
I hope that's not where my story ends, but for the last 15 months I have been awaiting trial for a fabricated case. I was happy for a few months but I guess the universe doesn't want me to be happy. Still, I'm still happier and have more sex than I had two years ago. So even a Mexican shit hole prison isn't the worst my life had to offer so far. But I don't think I deserve what life threw at me.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Essay:_How_having_childhood_onset_OCD_lead_me_to_believe_I_was_a_pedophile&diff=22451Essay: How having childhood onset OCD lead me to believe I was a pedophile2023-07-29T04:23:38Z<p>Vizzi: </p>
<hr />
<div>== by Nelson Maatman ==<br />
<br />
As a young child I was very sociable, but as I grew older, what I now recognize was anxiety, took over. It started with a weird incident when I was 9 years old. We, as a class, were told to look over another class of 6 year olds and my classmates responded saying I was weird and started laughing. ''I was bullied in school and became more shy and introverted. I started seeing psychologists which reinforced the belief that I was weird.''<br />
<br />
I didn't have the necessary knowledge and verbal skills to accurately explain what I felt and why. I fell down the Rabbit Hole and it took me almost two decades to climb out, just to fall into another.<br />
<br />
The first time I had butterflies more significant than a crush was on holiday in France when I was 11. A gorgeous suntanned 13-year-old boy from Belgium, with brown curly hair, who I can still remember vividly, caught my attention. There was no doubt in my mind, I was gay. *Back at* school my 8th grade teacher was an openly gay man. How lucky was I for having a gay role model right after figuring out I was gay myself. Sadly reality was more confusing and complicated than I was able to cope with. <br />
<br />
Seeing how I felt like the only gay kid in my world I did what any kid growing up at that time would do: search for peers on the internet. It's not what I found. Instead my first meet was with a man in his late 50s with an interest in prepubescent boys. He didn't lie about that when he send me a message. But since he was not a scary man jumping from the bushes I didn't think he was hostile and decided to meet up with him anyway. I was hoping he would be able to share some wisdom. Maybe he could even introduce me to other gay boys. <br />
<br />
That's of course not what happened.He gave me a DVD with videos of what he called "boys playing ping-pong". I was very much excited over the boys my age and older. It felt wrong and exiting at the same time. I had suffered from compulsive behavior from a very young age but since they involved security they where not identified as such. I would feel like I had to run up the stairs, I would check behind curtains and if doors and windows where secure, but the weirdest probably was that I was scared to be in the bathtub after pulling the plug. But nobody of course knew about that one. **I was seen as a scared child and as I withdrew more I was even misdiagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum.** <br />
<br />
Child psychologist mistook my disinterest in a mandatory psychology exam for autism. Obsessions and compulsive behavior had a grip on my life. But **obsessive and compulsive intrusive thoughts are very hard to identify since I was terrified to disclose them.** <br />
<br />
I was starting to think I was like the older man from the dating site. I had intrusive thoughts about raping children that would very much disturb me. I did not have the knowledge or skills to understand and identify the difference between an intrusive thought about rape and a rape fantasy. A rape fantasy is an enjoyable thought about having sex with someone against their will. I was terrified of committing such a crime and the unwanted thoughts I had about them where almost exclusively about fleeing and hiding after committing such crimes. To me they where not sexual or enjoyable at all. But since they had a sexual and criminal theme I did not disclose them. I would disclose other disturbing and intrusive thoughts to people, including therapists. <br />
<br />
After lots of therapy things went from bad to worse and I was diagnosed with a Schizo-typical Personality Disorder, a disorder related to schizophrenia. I was hospitalized twice, but mostly learned to adjust to the narrative. <br />
<br />
I was hanging out on the streets with a guy my age I really liked. We ran into a group of other teenagers and my friend started interacting with them. I experienced, what I now understand to be, severe social anxiety. I was 17 and a 14-year-old boy asked me to buy him a pack of smokes. I was really anxious and did what he asked. My friend however thought I was feeling anxious because I was nervous for liking the boy. He told me he thought I was a pedophile. It shook me to my core. This on top of intrusive thoughts about rape made me wrongfully self identify as a pedophile. <br />
<br />
I immediately sought out therapy but this again turned counter productive. Normal therapists where too disturbed by the intrusive thoughts and specialists where so focused on sexual abuse prevention they failed to try to identify what it was that I was feeling. Everyone was focused on what they saw as paranoid and delusional thoughts. The obsessive thoughts, like for example swallowing and choking on a fag as I would take a drag, were ignored. I started avoiding places with children. I'd go around a few blocks to avoid passing by a playground or school. <br />
<br />
Eventually I would avoid going outside during the day altogether. I found another alternative therapists who made things worse. As I was walking the street with him he noticed I would look away if children passed by. He told me to not be scared and just look. It just worsened my anxiety.<br />
<br />
While looking for non-therapeutic solutions to my anxiety, I ~~went on to talk~~ talked to the most famous pedophile activist in the Netherlands in hopes of finding a way to achieve inner peace. He warned me about violence from other people. ~~Therefore I thought~~ *I started thinking* the anxiety I felt, which I thought was stress and fear, came from an external source: a hostile society. *Since the world would believe* I didn't want sex with children I thought I needed the world to accept for society to accept people who do want that: Pedophiles. I needed to change society to not be hostile towards me.<br />
<br />
From here on my story goes from bad to worse. But the whole world was witness to that train-wreck. Here's what you don't know: I always avoided being around children. I didn't want to risk anything happening. <br />
<br />
Then one day I couldn't return home and decided I had to leave. (???? we need details here)<br />
<br />
I left for Frankfurt international airport without a plan. I asked for international flights to countries I could go without a visa. He suggested Mexico City. A return flight would cost me €350. I expected desserts and excruciating heat, tacos, parties with salsa music, colorful art. I jumped on that plane and found something else, something better: I found out who I am. I had barely had sex with anyone except for a double timing friend, who I felt was the love of my life, for more than a decade. <br />
<br />
In Mexico however I went on Grindr and found what I really wanted: Handsome Latino gay guys. I had what I experienced to be huge feelings for very much adult guys. Feelings I knew I had never had for a minor since I was an adult. Of course these relationships where very dramatic because of how new and big these feelings where for me. I went on Grindr and hooked up almost daily, I'd go to a bathhouse SODOME and would hook up with as much as 7 guys in a night. I had found my hedonistic dream. I caught feelings badly for one, but when he found out who I was it ended. Then I started dating another guy, until eventually I got snatched up by a Christian fundamentalist who planted printed (what year is this?) child pornography of girls(!) on me. <br />
<br />
I hope that's not where my story ends, but for the last 15 months I have been awaiting trial for a fabricated case. I was happy for a few months but I guess the universe doesn't want me to be happy. Still, I'm still happier and have more sex than I had two years ago. So even a Mexican shit hole prison isn't the worst my life had to offer so far. But I don't think I deserve what life threw at me.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Essay:_How_having_childhood_onset_OCD_lead_me_to_believe_I_was_a_pedophile&diff=22450Essay: How having childhood onset OCD lead me to believe I was a pedophile2023-07-29T04:21:21Z<p>Vizzi: </p>
<hr />
<div>== by Nelson Maatman ==<br />
<br />
As a young child I was very sociable, but as I grew older, what I now recognize was anxiety, took over. It started with a weird incident when I was 9 years old. We, as a class, were told to look over another class of 6 year olds. I was matched with a boy. Being the youngest of 3 brothers I never had to look after younger children before. He was affectionate and sweet, so I hugged him. To this one of my classmates responded saying I was weird and started laughing. <br />
<br />
Being confronted with having shown a "weird" form of affection I started doubting myself and went from a very extrovert kid, to being introverted and feeling like the world was hostile. This lead to bullying which in turn strengthened my negative feelings. Which lead to intervention by psychologists, which made me believe I was weird even more. <br />
<br />
I didn't have the necessary knowledge and verbal skills to accurately explain what I felt and why. I fell down the Rabbit Hole and it took me almost two decades to climb out, just to fall in another pitch. <br />
<br />
The first time I had butterflies more significant than a crush was on holiday in France when I was 11. A gorgeous suntanned 13-year-old boy from Belgium, with brown curly hair, who I can still remember vividly, caught my attention. There was no doubt in my mind, I was gay. After going back to school my 8th grade teacher was an openly gay man. How lucky was I for having a gay role model right after figuring out I was gay myself. Sadly reality was more confusing and complicated than I was able to cope with. <br />
<br />
Seeing how I felt like the only gay kid in my world I did what any kid growing up at that time would do: search for peers on the internet. It's not what I found. Instead my first meet was with a man in his late 50s with an interest in prepubescent boys. He didn't lie about that when he send me a message. But since he was not a scary man jumping from the bushes I didn't think he was hostile and decided to meet up with him anyway. I was hoping he would be able to share some wisdom. Maybe he could even introduce me to other gay boys. <br />
<br />
That's of course not what happened. I don't want to go over what happened when I met up with the man. But at the end he gave me a DVD with videos of what he called "boys playing ping-pong". I was very much excited over the boys my age and older. It felt wrong and exiting at the same time. I had suffered from compulsive behavior from a very young age but since they involved security they where not identified as such. I would feel like I had to run up the stairs, I would check behind curtains and if doors and windows where secure, but the weirdest probably was that I was scared to be in the bathtub after pulling the plug. But nobody of course knew about that one. I was seen as a scared child and as I withdrew more I was even misdiagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum. <br />
<br />
On top of being seen as introvert, as a young teenager I didn't feel like telling stories of pictures shown to me of kids in their PJ's or on the playground. Which child psychologist could have not mistaken my disinterest in a mandatory psychology exam for autism. Obsessions and compulsive behavior had a grip on my life. But obsessive and compulsive intrusive thoughts are very hard to identify since I was terrified to disclose them. <br />
<br />
After meeting the older man on a dating website, and what had happened, I was starting to think I was like him. I had intrusive thoughts about raping children that would very much disturb me. I did not have the knowledge or skills to understand and identify the difference between an intrusive thought about rape and a rape fantasy. A rape fantasy is an enjoyable thought about having sex with someone against their will. I however was terrified of committing such a crime and the unwanted thoughts I had about them where almost exclusively about fleeing and hiding after committing such crimes. To me they where not sexual or enjoyable at all. But since they had a sexual and criminal theme I did not disclose them. I would disclose other disturbing and intrusive thoughts to people, including therapists. <br />
<br />
I would for example talk about running up the stairs as a child. They would then ask me why I did that. I had no idea why. I didn't understand what the feelings where that I had, so I tried to give a, what I thought to be, rational reason: I was scared of someone chasing me. After lots of therapy things went from bad to worse and I was diagnosed with a Schizo-typical Personality Disorder, a disorder related to schizophrenia. I was hospitalized twice, but mostly learned to adjust to the narrative. Eventually a psychiatrist identified this during a second session, but she told me I was a liar and turned very hostile, which in turn made me dig my heels in. <br />
<br />
Despite disclosing obsessive thoughts, like for example swallowing and choking on a fag as I would take a drag. Everyone was focused on what they saw as paranoid and delusional thoughts. The obsessive thoughts where ignored. I would be sent to and look out alternative therapists that would actually believe that I had unwanted intrusive thoughts. But they in turn learned me to use counterproductive coping mechanisms like pulling on a rubber band around my wrist. Things went on without me understanding what it was I was feeling. The first term I learned for it was "stress". But I already had trouble with distinguishing stress from fear. Or identifying the feeling as such at all. I was able to cope for a while dealing with intrusive thoughts, including intrusive thoughts about rape, for a while but things eventually became way worse. <br />
<br />
I was hanging out on the streets with a guy my age I really liked. We ran into a group of other teenagers and my friend started interacting with them. I experienced, what I now understand to be, severe social anxiety. I was 17 and a 14-year-old boy asked me to buy him a pack of smokes. I was really anxious and did what he asked. My friend however thought I was feeling anxious because I was nervous for liking the boy. He told me he thought I was a pedophile. It shook me to my core. This on top of intrusive thoughts about rape made me wrongfully self identify as a pedophile. <br />
<br />
I immediately sought out therapy but this again turned counter productive. Normal therapists where too disturbed by the intrusive thoughts and specialists where so focused on sexual abuse prevention they failed to try to identify what it was that I was feeling. At first I started avoiding places with children. I'd go around a few blocks to avoid passing by a playground or school. <br />
<br />
Eventually I would avoid going outside during the day altogether. I found another alternative therapists who made things worse. As I was walking the street with him he noticed I would look away if children passed by. He told me to not be scared and just look. It just worsened my anxiety. After all this time of trying to cope with my internal feelings I decided to look for a solution externally. I went on to talk to the most famous pedophile activist in the Netherlands in hopes of finding a way to achieve inner peace. He of course told me about violence from other people. Therefore I thought the anxiety I felt, which I thought was stress and fear, came from an external source: a hostile society. So now I believed that to archive a feeling of safety and inner peace I needed to change society to not be hostile towards me. Which meant I thought I needed the world to accept pedophiles and when they wouldn't believe I didn't want sex with children, for society to accept people who do want that. <br />
<br />
From here on my story goes from bad to worse. But the whole world was witness to that train-wreck. Here's what you don't know: I always avoided being around children. I didn't want to risk anything happening. <br />
<br />
Then one day I couldn't return home and decided I had to leave. I left for Frankfurt international airport without a plan. I asked for international flights to countries I could go without a visa. The first one cost €1500,- so I asked for a cheaper option. He suggested Mexico City. A return flight would cost me €350,-. <br />
<br />
I remembered a Dutch movie about a jewel thief living on the beach in Cancun and more importantly Charlie Sheen in Grand Theft Auto going for the Mexican border. It ends on a cool scene with him leaning on the car, having a smoke, as he's surrounded by police. He commits suicide by cop by fake pulling a gun. I expected desserts and excruciating heat, tacos, parties with salsa music, colorful art. I jumped on that plane and found something else, something better: I found out who I am. I had barely had sex with anyone except for a double timing friend, who I felt was the love of my life, for more than a decade. <br />
<br />
In Mexico however I went on Grindr and found what I really wanted: Handsome Latino gay guys. I had what I experienced to be huge feelings for very much adult guys. Feelings I knew I had never had for a minor since I was an adult. Of course these relationships where very dramatic because of how new and big these feelings where for me. After I got back to Mexico for the second time things went way better. I went on Grindr and hooked up almost daily, I'd go to a bathhouse SODOME and would hook up with as much as 7 guys in a night. I had found my hedonistic dream. I caught feelings badly for one, but when he found out who I was it ended. Then I started dating another guy, until eventually I got snatched up by a Christian fundamentalist who planted printed (what year is this?) child pornography of girls(!) on me. <br />
<br />
I hope that's not where my story ends, but for the last 15 months I have been awaiting trial for a fabricated case. I was happy for a few months but I guess the universe doesn't want me to be happy. Still, I'm still happier and have more sex than I had two years ago. So even a Mexican shit hole prison isn't the worst my life had to offer so far. But I don't think I deserve what life threw at me.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Essay:_How_having_childhood_onset_OCD_lead_me_to_believe_I_was_a_pedophile&diff=22449Essay: How having childhood onset OCD lead me to believe I was a pedophile2023-07-29T04:18:25Z<p>Vizzi: Created page with " {{Template:Ac}}__NOTOC__'''How having childhood onset OCD lead me to believe I was a pedophile''' As a young child I was very sociable, but as I grew older, what I now recognize was anxiety, took over. It started with a weird incident when I was 9 years old. We, as a class, were told to look over another class of 6 year olds. I was matched with a boy. Being the youngest of 3 brothers I never had to look after younger children before. He was affectionate and sweet, so I..."</p>
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{{Template:Ac}}__NOTOC__'''How having childhood onset OCD lead me to believe I was a pedophile'''<br />
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As a young child I was very sociable, but as I grew older, what I now recognize was anxiety, took over. It started with a weird incident when I was 9 years old. We, as a class, were told to look over another class of 6 year olds. I was matched with a boy. Being the youngest of 3 brothers I never had to look after younger children before. He was affectionate and sweet, so I hugged him. To this one of my classmates responded saying I was weird and started laughing. <br />
<br />
Being confronted with having shown a "weird" form of affection I started doubting myself and went from a very extrovert kid, to being introverted and feeling like the world was hostile. This lead to bullying which in turn strengthened my negative feelings. Which lead to intervention by psychologists, which made me believe I was weird even more. <br />
<br />
I didn't have the necessary knowledge and verbal skills to accurately explain what I felt and why. I fell down the Rabbit Hole and it took me almost two decades to climb out, just to fall in another pitch. <br />
<br />
The first time I had butterflies more significant than a crush was on holiday in France when I was 11. A gorgeous suntanned 13-year-old boy from Belgium, with brown curly hair, who I can still remember vividly, caught my attention. There was no doubt in my mind, I was gay. After going back to school my 8th grade teacher was an openly gay man. How lucky was I for having a gay role model right after figuring out I was gay myself. Sadly reality was more confusing and complicated than I was able to cope with. <br />
<br />
Seeing how I felt like the only gay kid in my world I did what any kid growing up at that time would do: search for peers on the internet. It's not what I found. Instead my first meet was with a man in his late 50s with an interest in prepubescent boys. He didn't lie about that when he send me a message. But since he was not a scary man jumping from the bushes I didn't think he was hostile and decided to meet up with him anyway. I was hoping he would be able to share some wisdom. Maybe he could even introduce me to other gay boys. <br />
<br />
That's of course not what happened. I don't want to go over what happened when I met up with the man. But at the end he gave me a DVD with videos of what he called "boys playing ping-pong". I was very much excited over the boys my age and older. It felt wrong and exiting at the same time. I had suffered from compulsive behavior from a very young age but since they involved security they where not identified as such. I would feel like I had to run up the stairs, I would check behind curtains and if doors and windows where secure, but the weirdest probably was that I was scared to be in the bathtub after pulling the plug. But nobody of course knew about that one. I was seen as a scared child and as I withdrew more I was even misdiagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum. <br />
<br />
On top of being seen as introvert, as a young teenager I didn't feel like telling stories of pictures shown to me of kids in their PJ's or on the playground. Which child psychologist could have not mistaken my disinterest in a mandatory psychology exam for autism. Obsessions and compulsive behavior had a grip on my life. But obsessive and compulsive intrusive thoughts are very hard to identify since I was terrified to disclose them. <br />
<br />
After meeting the older man on a dating website, and what had happened, I was starting to think I was like him. I had intrusive thoughts about raping children that would very much disturb me. I did not have the knowledge or skills to understand and identify the difference between an intrusive thought about rape and a rape fantasy. A rape fantasy is an enjoyable thought about having sex with someone against their will. I however was terrified of committing such a crime and the unwanted thoughts I had about them where almost exclusively about fleeing and hiding after committing such crimes. To me they where not sexual or enjoyable at all. But since they had a sexual and criminal theme I did not disclose them. I would disclose other disturbing and intrusive thoughts to people, including therapists. <br />
<br />
I would for example talk about running up the stairs as a child. They would then ask me why I did that. I had no idea why. I didn't understand what the feelings where that I had, so I tried to give a, what I thought to be, rational reason: I was scared of someone chasing me. After lots of therapy things went from bad to worse and I was diagnosed with a Schizo-typical Personality Disorder, a disorder related to schizophrenia. I was hospitalized twice, but mostly learned to adjust to the narrative. Eventually a psychiatrist identified this during a second session, but she told me I was a liar and turned very hostile, which in turn made me dig my heels in. <br />
<br />
Despite disclosing obsessive thoughts, like for example swallowing and choking on a fag as I would take a drag. Everyone was focused on what they saw as paranoid and delusional thoughts. The obsessive thoughts where ignored. I would be sent to and look out alternative therapists that would actually believe that I had unwanted intrusive thoughts. But they in turn learned me to use counterproductive coping mechanisms like pulling on a rubber band around my wrist. Things went on without me understanding what it was I was feeling. The first term I learned for it was "stress". But I already had trouble with distinguishing stress from fear. Or identifying the feeling as such at all. I was able to cope for a while dealing with intrusive thoughts, including intrusive thoughts about rape, for a while but things eventually became way worse. <br />
<br />
I was hanging out on the streets with a guy my age I really liked. We ran into a group of other teenagers and my friend started interacting with them. I experienced, what I now understand to be, severe social anxiety. I was 17 and a 14-year-old boy asked me to buy him a pack of smokes. I was really anxious and did what he asked. My friend however thought I was feeling anxious because I was nervous for liking the boy. He told me he thought I was a pedophile. It shook me to my core. This on top of intrusive thoughts about rape made me wrongfully self identify as a pedophile. <br />
<br />
I immediately sought out therapy but this again turned counter productive. Normal therapists where too disturbed by the intrusive thoughts and specialists where so focused on sexual abuse prevention they failed to try to identify what it was that I was feeling. At first I started avoiding places with children. I'd go around a few blocks to avoid passing by a playground or school. <br />
<br />
Eventually I would avoid going outside during the day altogether. I found another alternative therapists who made things worse. As I was walking the street with him he noticed I would look away if children passed by. He told me to not be scared and just look. It just worsened my anxiety. After all this time of trying to cope with my internal feelings I decided to look for a solution externally. I went on to talk to the most famous pedophile activist in the Netherlands in hopes of finding a way to achieve inner peace. He of course told me about violence from other people. Therefore I thought the anxiety I felt, which I thought was stress and fear, came from an external source: a hostile society. So now I believed that to archive a feeling of safety and inner peace I needed to change society to not be hostile towards me. Which meant I thought I needed the world to accept pedophiles and when they wouldn't believe I didn't want sex with children, for society to accept people who do want that. <br />
<br />
From here on my story goes from bad to worse. But the whole world was witness to that train-wreck. Here's what you don't know: I always avoided being around children. I didn't want to risk anything happening. <br />
<br />
Then one day I couldn't return home and decided I had to leave. I left for Frankfurt international airport without a plan. I asked for international flights to countries I could go without a visa. The first one cost €1500,- so I asked for a cheaper option. He suggested Mexico City. A return flight would cost me €350,-. <br />
<br />
I remembered a Dutch movie about a jewel thief living on the beach in Cancun and more importantly Charlie Sheen in Grand Theft Auto going for the Mexican border. It ends on a cool scene with him leaning on the car, having a smoke, as he's surrounded by police. He commits suicide by cop by fake pulling a gun. I expected desserts and excruciating heat, tacos, parties with salsa music, colorful art. I jumped on that plane and found something else, something better: I found out who I am. I had barely had sex with anyone except for a double timing friend, who I felt was the love of my life, for more than a decade. <br />
<br />
In Mexico however I went on Grindr and found what I really wanted: Handsome Latino gay guys. I had what I experienced to be huge feelings for very much adult guys. Feelings I knew I had never had for a minor since I was an adult. Of course these relationships where very dramatic because of how new and big these feelings where for me. After I got back to Mexico for the second time things went way better. I went on Grindr and hooked up almost daily, I'd go to a bathhouse SODOME and would hook up with as much as 7 guys in a night. I had found my hedonistic dream. I caught feelings badly for one, but when he found out who I was it ended. Then I started dating another guy, until eventually I got snatched up by a Christian fundamentalist who planted printed (what year is this?) child pornography of girls(!) on me. <br />
<br />
I hope that's not where my story ends, but for the last 15 months I have been awaiting trial for a fabricated case. I was happy for a few months but I guess the universe doesn't want me to be happy. Still, I'm still happier and have more sex than I had two years ago. So even a Mexican shit hole prison isn't the worst my life had to offer so far. But I don't think I deserve what life threw at me.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty_in_Japanese_culture&diff=21751Pederasty in Japanese culture2023-06-29T03:53:41Z<p>Vizzi: </p>
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<div>__NOTOC__'''Japan''' has a long rich history of Wakashudou (boylove), homosexuality, and bisexuality that was influenced by the history of Shinto and Buddist cultural traditions. In the modern era Japan has several genres of art that feature the sexual exploration of characters with youthful and/or child-like features including [[Wikipedia:Shotacon|Shota]], [[Lolicon|lolicon]], [[Wikipedia:Bishōnen|bishōnen]], boys love, and shounen'ai. <br />
<br />
[[File:P22-flanagan-sexual-a-20161120.jpg|thumb|Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right)]]<br />
<br />
== Buddhism ==<br />
<br />
Japan's tradition Buddhist tradition includes the practice of ''nanshouku'' where "an older Buddhist monk called the ''nenja'' would take on a prepubescent boy, called the ''chigo'', as his acolyte." Later, the samurai brought this tradition out of the monasteries and into the public where it was known as ''Wakashudou''. In ''wakashudō'', prepubescent boys would be apprenticed to an older man. He would learn martial arts, life skills, and, if the boy agreed, be the man's lover until he became an adult.<br />
<br />
Recently Japan has wrestled with it's relationship to minor attraction, torn between it's own traditions and modern western efforts to criminalize minor attraction. Until 2023, Japan had "the lowest [[Age of Consent]]<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkzj/japan-age-of-consent-sex Japanese Politician Regrets Saying It’s OK to Have Sex with 14-Year-Old (Vice)]</ref><ref name="BBC">[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519 Japan aims to raise age of consent from 13 to 16 in sex crime overhaul (BBC)]</ref> in developed countries, and the lowest in the G7 group." A move to raise the age of consent to 16 recently aligned it more closely with modern western laws.<br />
<br />
== Shinto influences; A traditional perspective on sexuality ==<br />
<br />
Japan's oldest major religion, [[wikipedia:Shinto|''Shinto'']] puts sex before creation<ref name="tofugu">[https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/ Tofugu: The Gay of the Samurai. All About Homosexuality, Buddhist Monks, Samurai, and The Tokugawa Middle Class]</ref> when 2 ''Kami'' decide to have sex then which forms Japan:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
''At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"''<br />
<br />
''She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."''<br />
<br />
''Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"''<br />
<br />
''Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."''<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
In Shinto belief all "all sexual love is unconditional good,"<ref name="tofugu" /> sharply contrasting the Judeo-Christian association of sex with impurity and punishment. Japan's largest religion is fundamentally sex-positive which affects all aspects of Japanese relationship to sexuality.<br />
<br />
== Apprenticeships ==<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg|thumb|Athletic boy drawn in shota style]]<br />
Wakashu was a term from the Edo period referring to a Japanese young person who was a male beyond early childhood, but wasn't considered a man. Wakashu aged 7 to 17 wore their hair partially shaven. The boys could begin formal education, become an apprentice, or find a job. <br />
<br />
In the 12th century sons of the ruling class Samurai would be sent to Buddhist monasteries for education. As acolytes, the sons were introduced to the ''nanshuko'' tradition by older monks. The samurai expanded ''nanshuoku'' out of the monasteries and into the cities. <br />
<br />
=== Wakashudo ===<br />
<br />
The samurai version was called wakashudō. Boys would be apprenticed to an older man who taught them life skills, martial arts, and social skills. The pair would formalize a "brotherhood contract" <br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
''The idea was that this wakashudō relationship should have a 'mutually ennobling effect' on the pair. They were expected to 'assist each other in feudal duties in honor-driven obligations such as duels and vendettas. Although sex between the couple was expected to end when the boy came of age, the relationship would, ideally, develop into a lifelong bond of friendship. At the same time, sexual activity with women was not barred (for either party), and once the boy came of age, both were free to seek other wakashū lovers.'' <br />
<br />
'''Gregory Pflugfelder'''<ref name="tofugu" /><br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The tradition and it's reception as a cultural institution echoes [[Pederasty|Greek Love]] in that it was considered a high-class behavior which eventually expanded to the merchant class who took on servant boys and apprentices.<br />
<br />
== Artistic genres featuring child romance ==<br />
<br />
[[Wikipedia:Shotacon|Shota]] features romantic drawings of pubescent and putrescent boys. [[Lolicon]] is similar art involving girls. This includes manga, anime, and other media representations. <br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a [[wikipedia:Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words|Japanese contraction]] of ''Shōtarō complex'' (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from [[Wikipedia:Tetsujin_28-go|Tetsujin 28-go]]<ref name="Otaku Sexuality p.236">Saitō Tamaki (2007) "Otaku Sexuality" in Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., and [[Takayuki Tatsumi]] ed., page 236 ''[http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/bolton_robot.html Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams].'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110605115230/http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/bolton_robot.html Archived.] University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0-8166-4974-7. "Shota is an abbreviation for “Shotaro complex,” from Kaneda Shotaro, the boy who pilots the robot in the manga and anime Tetsujin 28 go (what became Gigantor in English). Originally an offshoot of yaoi, the origins of this genre are said to begin in the early 1980s."</ref> who is considered a beautiful young boy or [[Wikipedia:Bishōnen|''bishōnen'']].<br />
<br />
===Gallery===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg|Soccer player boy drawn in anime or shota style<br />
File:Bishounen.jpg|A [[wikipedia:Bishōnen|beautiful boy]] drawn in anime style wearing a suit and holding his face in his hands<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
=== Modern age of consent policy changes ===<br />
<br />
Japan's age of consent was 13 years old as recently as 2023. A Japanese Justice Ministry panel proposed (successfully) an age of 16.<ref name="BBC" /> Teen couples will be exempt from prosecution if both partners are over 13 and no more than five years apart in age. Hiranao Honda objected to raising Japan’s age of consent from 13 to 16 arguing that "12- and 20-year-olds can have serious relationships,” and "Japan’s age of consent is not that low compared to other nations."<ref name=JapanTimes>[https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/16/national/crime-legal/japan-raises-age-of-consent/ Japan raises age of consent from 13 to 16 years old]</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<br />
[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:Art]][[Category:Research]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: Japanese]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]][[Category:History & Events: 12th C]][[Category:Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Historical]]</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty_in_Japanese_culture&diff=21750Pederasty in Japanese culture2023-06-29T03:38:15Z<p>Vizzi: /* Modern age of consent policy changes */</p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__'''Japan''' has a long rich history of Wakashudou (boylove), homosexuality, and bisexuality that was influenced by the history of Shinto and Buddist cultural traditions. In the modern era Japan has several genres of art that feature the sexual exploration of characters with youthful and/or child-like features including [[Wikipedia:Shotacon|Shota]], [[Lolicon|lolicon]], [[Wikipedia:Bishōnen|bishōnen]], boys love, and shounen'ai. <br />
<br />
[[File:P22-flanagan-sexual-a-20161120.jpg|thumb|Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right)]]<br />
<br />
== Buddhism ==<br />
<br />
Japan's tradition Buddhist tradition includes the practice of ''nanshouku'' where "an older Buddhist monk called the ''nenja'' would take on a prepubescent boy, called the ''chigo'', as his acolyte." Later, the samurai brought this tradition out of the monasteries and into the public where it was known as ''Wakashudou''. In ''wakashudō'', prepubescent boys would be apprenticed to an older man. He would learn martial arts, life skills, and, if the boy agreed, be the man's lover until he became an adult.<br />
<br />
Recently Japan has wrestled with it's relationship to minor attraction, torn between it's own traditions and modern western efforts to criminalize minor attraction. Until 2023, Japan had "the lowest [[Age of Consent]]<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkzj/japan-age-of-consent-sex Japanese Politician Regrets Saying It’s OK to Have Sex with 14-Year-Old (Vice)]</ref><ref name="BBC">[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519 Japan aims to raise age of consent from 13 to 16 in sex crime overhaul (BBC)]</ref> in developed countries, and the lowest in the G7 group." A move to raise the age of consent to 16 recently aligned it more closely with modern western laws.<br />
<br />
== Shinto influences; A traditional perspective on sexuality ==<br />
<br />
Japan's oldest major religion, [[wikipedia:Shinto|''Shinto'']] puts sex before creation<ref name="tofugu">[https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/ Tofugu: The Gay of the Samurai. All About Homosexuality, Buddhist Monks, Samurai, and The Tokugawa Middle Class]</ref> when 2 ''Kami'' decide to have sex then which forms Japan:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
''At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"''<br />
<br />
''She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."''<br />
<br />
''Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"''<br />
<br />
''Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."''<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
In Shinto belief all "all sexual love is unconditional good,"<ref name="tofugu" /> sharply contrasting the Judeo-Christian association of sex with impurity and punishment. Japan's largest religion is fundamentally sex-positive which affects all aspects of Japanese relationship to sexuality.<br />
<br />
== Apprenticeships ==<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg|thumb|Athletic boy drawn in shota style]]<br />
Wakashu was a term from the Edo period referring to a Japanese young person who was a male beyond early childhood, but wasn't considered a man. Wakashu aged 7 to 17 wore their hair partially shaven. The boys could begin formal education, become an apprentice, or find a job. <br />
<br />
In the 12th century sons of the ruling class Samurai would be sent to Buddhist monasteries for education. As acolytes, the sons were introduced to the ''nanshuko'' tradition by older monks. The samurai expanded ''nanshuoku'' out of the monasteries and into the cities. <br />
<br />
=== Wakashudo ===<br />
<br />
The samurai version was called wakashudō. Boys would be apprenticed to an older man who taught them life skills, martial arts, and social skills. The pair would formalize a "brotherhood contract" <br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
''The idea was that this wakashudō relationship should have a 'mutually ennobling effect' on the pair. They were expected to 'assist each other in feudal duties in honor-driven obligations such as duels and vendettas. Although sex between the couple was expected to end when the boy came of age, the relationship would, ideally, develop into a lifelong bond of friendship. At the same time, sexual activity with women was not barred (for either party), and once the boy came of age, both were free to seek other wakashū lovers.'' <br />
<br />
'''Gregory Pflugfelder'''<ref name="tofugu" /><br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The tradition and it's reception as a cultural institution echoes [[Pederasty|Greek Love]] in that it was considered a high-class behavior which eventually expanded to the merchant class who took on servant boys and apprentices.<br />
<br />
== Artistic genres featuring child romance ==<br />
<br />
[[Wikipedia:Shotacon|Shota]] features romantic drawings of pubescent and putrescent boys. [[Lolicon]] is similar art involving girls. This includes manga, anime, and other media representations. <br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a [[wikipedia:Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words|Japanese contraction]] of ''Shōtarō complex'' (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from [[Wikipedia:Tetsujin_28-go|Tetsujin 28-go]]<ref name="Otaku Sexuality p.236">Saitō Tamaki (2007) "Otaku Sexuality" in Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., and [[Takayuki Tatsumi]] ed., page 236 ''[http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/bolton_robot.html Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams].'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110605115230/http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/bolton_robot.html Archived.] University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0-8166-4974-7. "Shota is an abbreviation for “Shotaro complex,” from Kaneda Shotaro, the boy who pilots the robot in the manga and anime Tetsujin 28 go (what became Gigantor in English). Originally an offshoot of yaoi, the origins of this genre are said to begin in the early 1980s."</ref> who is considered a beautiful young boy or [[Wikipedia:Bishōnen|''bishōnen'']].<br />
<br />
===Gallery===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg|Soccer player boy drawn in anime or shota style<br />
File:Bishounen.jpg|A [[wikipedia:Bishōnen|beautiful boy]] drawn in anime style wearing a suit and holding his face in his hands<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
=== Modern age of consent policy changes ===<br />
<br />
Japan's age of consent was 13 years old as recently as 2023. A Japanese Justice Ministry panel proposed (successfully) an age of 16.<ref name="BBC" /> Teen couples will be exempt from prosecution if both partners are over 13 and no more than five years apart in age. Hiranao Honda objected to raising Japan’s age of consent from 13 to 16 arguing that "12- and 20-year-olds can have serious relationships,” and "Japan’s age of consent is not that low compared to other nations."<ref name=JapanTimes>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/16/national/crime-legal/japan-raises-age-of-consent/ Japan raises age of consent from 13 to 16 years old</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<br />
[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:Art]][[Category:Research]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: Japanese]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]][[Category:History & Events: 12th C]][[Category:Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Historical]]</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty_in_Japanese_culture&diff=21656Pederasty in Japanese culture2023-06-27T03:00:11Z<p>Vizzi: /* Wakashudo */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Japan ==<br />
<br />
Japan has a long rich history of [[Wakashudou|Wakashudou (boylove)]], homosexuality, and bisexuality that was influenced by the history of Shinto and Buddist cultural traditions. In the modern era Japan has several genres of art that feature the sexual exploration of characters with youthful and/or child-like features including [[Shota]], [[Lolicon|lolicon]], [[Bishōnen|bishōnen]], boys love, and shounen'ai. <br />
<br />
[[File:P22-flanagan-sexual-a-20161120.jpg|thumb|Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right)]]<br />
<br />
=== Buddhism ===<br />
Japan's tradition Buddhist tradition includes the practice of ''nanshouku'' where "an older Buddhist monk called the ''nenja'' would take on a prepubescent boy, called the ''chigo'', as his acolyte." Later, the samurai brought this tradition out of the monasteries and into the public where it was known as ''Wakashudou''. In ''wakashudō'', prepubescent boys would be apprenticed to an older man. He would learn martial arts, life skills, and, if the boy agreed, be the man's lover until he became an adult.<br />
<br />
Recently Japan has wrestled with it's relationship to minor attraction, torn between it's own traditions and modern western efforts to criminalize minor attraction. In 2023, Japan has "the lowest age of consent<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkzj/japan-age-of-consent-sex</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref> in developed countries, and the lowest in the G7 group."^[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519] There is a proposal to raise the age of consent to 16 to align more closely with modern western laws.<br />
<br />
=== Shinto Influences Traditional Perspective on Sexuality ===<br />
<br />
Japan's oldest major religion, ''Shinto'' puts sex before creation<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> when 2 ''Kami''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto</ref> decide to have sex then which forms Japan:<br />
<br />
>At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"<br />
> She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."<br />
> Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"<br />
> Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."<br />
<br />
In Shinto belief all "all sexual love is unconditional good,"<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> sharply contrasting the Judeo-Christian association of sex with impurity and punishment. Japan's largest religion is fundamentally sex-positive which affects all aspects of Japanese relationship to sexuality. <br />
<br />
=== Apprenticeships ===<br />
<br />
Wakashu was a term from the Edo period referring to a Japanese young person who was a male beyond early childhood, but wasn't considered a man. Wakashu aged 7 to 17 wore their hair partially shaven. The boys could begin formal education, become an apprentice, or find a job. <br />
<br />
In the 12th century sons of the ruling class Samurai would be sent to Buddhist monasteries for education. As acolytes, the sons were introduced to the ''nanshuko'' tradition by older monks. The samurai expanded ''nanshuoku'' out of the monasteries and into the cities. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Wakashudo ====<br />
The samurai version was called wakashudō. Boys would be apprenticed to an older man who taught them life skills, martial arts, and social skills. The pair would formalize a "brotherhood contract" <br />
<br />
>"The idea was that this wakashudō relationship should have a 'mutually ennobling effect' on the pair. They were expected to 'assist each other in feudal duties in honor-driven obligations such as duels and vendettas. Although sex between the couple was expected to end when the boy came of age, the relationship would, ideally, develop into a lifelong bond of friendship. At the same time, sexual activity with women was not barred (for either party), and once the boy came of age, both were free to seek other wakashū lovers." - Gregory Pflugfelder <ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref><br />
<br />
The tradition and it's reception as a cultural institution echoes [[Greek Love]] in that it was considered a high-class behavior which eventually expanded to the merchant class who took on servant boys and apprentices.<br />
<br />
=== Artistic Genres featuring child romance ===<br />
[[Shota]] features romantic drawings of pubescent and putrescent boys and [[Lolicon]] is similar art involving girls. This includes manga, anime, and other media representations. <br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg|thumb|Athletic boy drawn in shota style]]<br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a Japanese contraction<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words%20"Japanese%20abbreviated%20and%20contracted%20words"</ref> of ''Shōtarō complex'' (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from [Tetsujin 28-go]<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go "Tetsujin 28-go"</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon#cite_note-Otaku_Sexuality_p.236-3</ref>. who is considered a beautiful young boy or bishounen. <br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg|thumb|Soccer player boy drawn in anime or shota style]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Bishounen.jpg|thumb|right|A beautiful boy drawn in anime style wearing a suit and holding his face in his hands]]<br />
<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishōnen</ref><br />
<br />
=== Modern Age of Consent Policy Changes ===<br />
<br />
Japan's age of consent is currently 13 years old as of 2023. A Japanese Justice Ministry panel recently proposed to raise that age to 16 <ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref>. Hiranao Honda has objected to raising Japan’s age of consent from 13 to 16 arguing that "12- and 20-year-olds can have serious relationships,” and "Japan’s age of consent is not that low compared to other nations." According to him raising the age of consent in unnecessary.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty_in_Japanese_culture&diff=21655Pederasty in Japanese culture2023-06-27T02:59:29Z<p>Vizzi: /* Wakashudo */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Japan ==<br />
<br />
Japan has a long rich history of [[Wakashudou|Wakashudou (boylove)]], homosexuality, and bisexuality that was influenced by the history of Shinto and Buddist cultural traditions. In the modern era Japan has several genres of art that feature the sexual exploration of characters with youthful and/or child-like features including [[Shota]], [[Lolicon|lolicon]], [[Bishōnen|bishōnen]], boys love, and shounen'ai. <br />
<br />
[[File:P22-flanagan-sexual-a-20161120.jpg|thumb|Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right)]]<br />
<br />
=== Buddhism ===<br />
Japan's tradition Buddhist tradition includes the practice of ''nanshouku'' where "an older Buddhist monk called the ''nenja'' would take on a prepubescent boy, called the ''chigo'', as his acolyte." Later, the samurai brought this tradition out of the monasteries and into the public where it was known as ''Wakashudou''. In ''wakashudō'', prepubescent boys would be apprenticed to an older man. He would learn martial arts, life skills, and, if the boy agreed, be the man's lover until he became an adult.<br />
<br />
Recently Japan has wrestled with it's relationship to minor attraction, torn between it's own traditions and modern western efforts to criminalize minor attraction. In 2023, Japan has "the lowest age of consent<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkzj/japan-age-of-consent-sex</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref> in developed countries, and the lowest in the G7 group."^[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519] There is a proposal to raise the age of consent to 16 to align more closely with modern western laws.<br />
<br />
=== Shinto Influences Traditional Perspective on Sexuality ===<br />
<br />
Japan's oldest major religion, ''Shinto'' puts sex before creation<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> when 2 ''Kami''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto</ref> decide to have sex then which forms Japan:<br />
<br />
>At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"<br />
> She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."<br />
> Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"<br />
> Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."<br />
<br />
In Shinto belief all "all sexual love is unconditional good,"<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> sharply contrasting the Judeo-Christian association of sex with impurity and punishment. Japan's largest religion is fundamentally sex-positive which affects all aspects of Japanese relationship to sexuality. <br />
<br />
=== Apprenticeships ===<br />
<br />
Wakashu was a term from the Edo period referring to a Japanese young person who was a male beyond early childhood, but wasn't considered a man. Wakashu aged 7 to 17 wore their hair partially shaven. The boys could begin formal education, become an apprentice, or find a job. <br />
<br />
In the 12th century sons of the ruling class Samurai would be sent to Buddhist monasteries for education. As acolytes, the sons were introduced to the ''nanshuko'' tradition by older monks. The samurai expanded ''nanshuoku'' out of the monasteries and into the cities. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Wakashudo ====<br />
The samurai version was called wakashudō. Boys would be apprenticed to an older man who taught them life skills, martial arts, and social skills. The pair would formalize a "brotherhood contract" <br />
<br />
>"The idea was that this wakashudō relationship should have a 'mutually ennobling effect' on the pair. They were expected to 'assist each other in feudal duties in honor-driven obligations such as duels and vendettas. Although sex between the couple was expected to end when the boy came of age, the relationship would, ideally, develop into a lifelong bond of friendship. At the same time, sexual activity with women was not barred (for either party), and once the boy came of age, both were free to seek other wakashū lovers." - Gregory Pflugfelder <ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref><br />
<br />
The tradition and it's reception as a cultural institution echoes [http://Greek%20Love Greek Love] in that it was considered a high-class behavior which eventually expanded to the merchant class who took on servant boys and apprentices.<br />
<br />
=== Artistic Genres featuring child romance ===<br />
[[Shota]] features romantic drawings of pubescent and putrescent boys and [[Lolicon]] is similar art involving girls. This includes manga, anime, and other media representations. <br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg|thumb|Athletic boy drawn in shota style]]<br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a Japanese contraction<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words%20"Japanese%20abbreviated%20and%20contracted%20words"</ref> of ''Shōtarō complex'' (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from [Tetsujin 28-go]<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go "Tetsujin 28-go"</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon#cite_note-Otaku_Sexuality_p.236-3</ref>. who is considered a beautiful young boy or bishounen. <br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg|thumb|Soccer player boy drawn in anime or shota style]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Bishounen.jpg|thumb|right|A beautiful boy drawn in anime style wearing a suit and holding his face in his hands]]<br />
<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishōnen</ref><br />
<br />
=== Modern Age of Consent Policy Changes ===<br />
<br />
Japan's age of consent is currently 13 years old as of 2023. A Japanese Justice Ministry panel recently proposed to raise that age to 16 <ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref>. Hiranao Honda has objected to raising Japan’s age of consent from 13 to 16 arguing that "12- and 20-year-olds can have serious relationships,” and "Japan’s age of consent is not that low compared to other nations." According to him raising the age of consent in unnecessary.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty_in_Japanese_culture&diff=21654Pederasty in Japanese culture2023-06-27T02:57:18Z<p>Vizzi: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Japan ==<br />
<br />
Japan has a long rich history of [[Wakashudou|Wakashudou (boylove)]], homosexuality, and bisexuality that was influenced by the history of Shinto and Buddist cultural traditions. In the modern era Japan has several genres of art that feature the sexual exploration of characters with youthful and/or child-like features including [[Shota]], [[Lolicon|lolicon]], [[Bishōnen|bishōnen]], boys love, and shounen'ai. <br />
<br />
[[File:P22-flanagan-sexual-a-20161120.jpg|thumb|Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right)]]<br />
<br />
=== Buddhism ===<br />
Japan's tradition Buddhist tradition includes the practice of ''nanshouku'' where "an older Buddhist monk called the ''nenja'' would take on a prepubescent boy, called the ''chigo'', as his acolyte." Later, the samurai brought this tradition out of the monasteries and into the public where it was known as ''Wakashudou''. In ''wakashudō'', prepubescent boys would be apprenticed to an older man. He would learn martial arts, life skills, and, if the boy agreed, be the man's lover until he became an adult.<br />
<br />
Recently Japan has wrestled with it's relationship to minor attraction, torn between it's own traditions and modern western efforts to criminalize minor attraction. In 2023, Japan has "the lowest age of consent<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkzj/japan-age-of-consent-sex</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref> in developed countries, and the lowest in the G7 group."^[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519] There is a proposal to raise the age of consent to 16 to align more closely with modern western laws.<br />
<br />
=== Shinto Influences Traditional Perspective on Sexuality ===<br />
<br />
Japan's oldest major religion, ''Shinto'' puts sex before creation<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> when 2 ''Kami''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto</ref> decide to have sex then which forms Japan:<br />
<br />
>At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"<br />
> She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."<br />
> Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"<br />
> Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."<br />
<br />
In Shinto belief all "all sexual love is unconditional good,"<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> sharply contrasting the Judeo-Christian association of sex with impurity and punishment. Japan's largest religion is fundamentally sex-positive which affects all aspects of Japanese relationship to sexuality. <br />
<br />
=== Apprenticeships ===<br />
<br />
Wakashu was a term from the Edo period referring to a Japanese young person who was a male beyond early childhood, but wasn't considered a man. Wakashu aged 7 to 17 wore their hair partially shaven. The boys could begin formal education, become an apprentice, or find a job. <br />
<br />
In the 12th century sons of the ruling class Samurai would be sent to Buddhist monasteries for education. As acolytes, the sons were introduced to the ''nanshuko'' tradition by older monks. The samurai expanded ''nanshuoku'' out of the monasteries and into the cities. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Wakashudo ====<br />
The samurai version was called wakashudō. Boys would be apprenticed to an older man who taught them life skills, martial arts, and social skills. The pair would formalize a "brotherhood contract" <br />
<br />
>"The idea was that this wakashudō relationship should have a 'mutually ennobling effect' on the pair. They were expected to 'assist each other in feudal duties in honor-driven obligations such as duels and vendettas. Although sex between the couple was expected to end when the boy came of age, the relationship would, ideally, develop into a lifelong bond of friendship. At the same time, sexual activity with women was not barred (for either party), and once the boy came of age, both were free to seek other wakashū lovers." - Gregory Pflugfelder <ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref><br />
<br />
The tradition and it's reception as a cultural institution echoes [Greek Love|Greek Love] in that it was considered a high-class behavior which eventually expanded to the merchant class who took on servant boys and apprentices.<br />
<br />
=== Artistic Genres featuring child romance ===<br />
[[Shota]] features romantic drawings of pubescent and putrescent boys and [[Lolicon]] is similar art involving girls. This includes manga, anime, and other media representations. <br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg|thumb|Athletic boy drawn in shota style]]<br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a Japanese contraction<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words%20"Japanese%20abbreviated%20and%20contracted%20words"</ref> of ''Shōtarō complex'' (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from [Tetsujin 28-go]<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go "Tetsujin 28-go"</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon#cite_note-Otaku_Sexuality_p.236-3</ref>. who is considered a beautiful young boy or bishounen. <br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg|thumb|Soccer player boy drawn in anime or shota style]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Bishounen.jpg|thumb|right|A beautiful boy drawn in anime style wearing a suit and holding his face in his hands]]<br />
<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishōnen</ref><br />
<br />
=== Modern Age of Consent Policy Changes ===<br />
<br />
Japan's age of consent is currently 13 years old as of 2023. A Japanese Justice Ministry panel recently proposed to raise that age to 16 <ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref>. Hiranao Honda has objected to raising Japan’s age of consent from 13 to 16 arguing that "12- and 20-year-olds can have serious relationships,” and "Japan’s age of consent is not that low compared to other nations." According to him raising the age of consent in unnecessary.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty_in_Japanese_culture&diff=21653Pederasty in Japanese culture2023-06-27T02:55:11Z<p>Vizzi: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Japan ==<br />
<br />
Japan has a long rich history of [[Wakashudou|Wakashudou (boylove)]], homosexuality, and bisexuality that was influenced by the history of Shinto and Buddist cultural traditions. In the modern era Japan has several genres of art that feature the sexual exploration of characters with youthful and/or child-like features including [[Shota]], [[Lolicon|lolicon]], [[Bishōnen|bishōnen]], boys love, and shounen'ai. <br />
<br />
[[File:P22-flanagan-sexual-a-20161120.jpg|thumb|Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right)]]<br />
<br />
=== Buddhism ===<br />
Japan's tradition Buddhist tradition includes the practice of ''nanshouku'' where "an older Buddhist monk called the ''nenja'' would take on a prepubescent boy, called the ''chigo'', as his acolyte." Later, the samurai brought this tradition out of the monasteries and into the public where it was known as ''Wakashudou''. In ''wakashudō'', prepubescent boys would be apprenticed to an older man. He would learn martial arts, life skills, and, if the boy agreed, be the man's lover until he became an adult.<br />
<br />
Recently Japan has wrestled with it's relationship to minor attraction, torn between it's own traditions and modern western efforts to criminalize minor attraction. In 2023, Japan has "the lowest age of consent<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkzj/japan-age-of-consent-sex</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref> in developed countries, and the lowest in the G7 group."^[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519] There is a proposal to raise the age of consent to 16 to align more closely with modern western laws.<br />
<br />
=== Shinto Influences Traditional Perspective on Sexuality ===<br />
<br />
Japan's oldest major religion, ''Shinto'' puts sex before creation<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> when 2 ''Kami''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto</ref> decide to have sex then which forms Japan:<br />
<br />
>At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"<br />
> She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."<br />
> Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"<br />
> Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."<br />
<br />
In Shinto belief all "all sexual love is unconditional good,"<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> sharply contrasting the Judeo-Christian association of sex with impurity and punishment. Japan's largest religion is fundamentally sex-positive which affects all aspects of Japanese relationship to sexuality. <br />
<br />
=== Apprenticeships ===<br />
<br />
Wakashu was a term from the Edo period referring to a Japanese young person who was a male beyond early childhood, but wasn't considered a man. Wakashu aged 7 to 17 wore their hair partially shaven. The boys could begin formal education, become an apprentice, or find a job. <br />
<br />
In the 12th century sons of the ruling class Samurai would be sent to Buddhist monasteries for education. As acolytes, the sons were introduced to the ''nanshuko'' tradition by older monks. The samurai expanded ''nanshuoku'' out of the monasteries and into the cities. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Wakashudo ====<br />
The samurai version was called wakashudō. Boys would be apprenticed to an older man who taught them life skills, martial arts, and social skills. The pair would formalize a "brotherhood contract" <br />
<br />
>"The idea was that this wakashudō relationship should have a 'mutually ennobling effect' on the pair. They were expected to 'assist each other in feudal duties in honor-driven obligations such as duels and vendettas. Although sex between the couple was expected to end when the boy came of age, the relationship would, ideally, develop into a lifelong bond of friendship. At the same time, sexual activity with women was not barred (for either party), and once the boy came of age, both were free to seek other wakashū lovers." - Gregory Pflugfelder <ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref><br />
<br />
The tradition and it's reception as a cultural institution echoes [Greek Love|Greek Love] in that it was considered a high-class behavior which eventually expanded to the merchant class who took on servant boys and apprentices.<br />
<br />
=== Modern Age of Consent Policy Changes ===<br />
<br />
Japan's age of consent is currently 13 years old as of 2023. A Japanese Justice Ministry panel recently proposed to raise that age to 16 <ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref>. Hiranao Honda has objected to raising Japan’s age of consent from 13 to 16 arguing that "12- and 20-year-olds can have serious relationships,” and "Japan’s age of consent is not that low compared to other nations." According to him raising the age of consent in unnecessary. <br />
<br />
=== Artistic Genres featuring child romance ===<br />
[[Shota]] features romantic drawings of pubescent and putrescent boys and [[Lolicon]] is similar art involving girls. This includes manga, anime, and other media representations. <br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg|thumb|Athletic boy drawn in shota style]]<br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a Japanese contraction<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words%20"Japanese%20abbreviated%20and%20contracted%20words"</ref> of ''Shōtarō complex'' (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from [Tetsujin 28-go]<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go "Tetsujin 28-go"</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon#cite_note-Otaku_Sexuality_p.236-3</ref>. who is considered a beautiful young boy or bishounen. <br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg|thumb|Soccer player boy drawn in anime or shota style]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Bishounen.jpg|thumb|right|A beautiful boy drawn in anime style wearing a suit and holding his face in his hands]]<br />
<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishōnen</ref></div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty_in_Japanese_culture&diff=21652Pederasty in Japanese culture2023-06-27T02:48:40Z<p>Vizzi: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Japan ==<br />
<br />
Japan has a long rich history of [[Wakashudou|Wakashudou (boylove)]], homosexuality, and bisexuality that was influenced by the history of Shinto and Buddist cultural traditions. In the modern era Japan has several genres of art that feature the sexual exploration of characters with youthful and/or child-like features including [[Shota]], [[Lolicon|lolicon]], [[Bishōnen|bishōnen]], boys love, and shounen'ai. <br />
<br />
[[File:P22-flanagan-sexual-a-20161120.jpg|thumb|Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right)]]<br />
<br />
=== Buddhism ===<br />
Japan's tradition Buddhist tradition includes the practice of ''nanshouku'' where "an older Buddhist monk called the ''nenja'' would take on a prepubescent boy, called the ''chigo'', as his acolyte." Later, the samurai brought this tradition out of the monasteries and into the public where it was known as ''Wakashudou''. In ''wakashudō'', prepubescent boys would be apprenticed to an older man. He would learn martial arts, life skills, and, if the boy agreed, be the man's lover until he became an adult.<br />
<br />
Recently Japan has wrestled with it's relationship to minor attraction, torn between it's own traditions and modern western efforts to criminalize minor attraction. In 2023, Japan has "the lowest age of consent<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkzj/japan-age-of-consent-sex</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref> in developed countries, and the lowest in the G7 group."^[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519] There is a proposal to raise the age of consent to 16 to align more closely with modern western laws.<br />
<br />
=== Shinto Influences Traditional Perspective on Sexuality ===<br />
<br />
Japan's oldest major religion, ''Shinto'' puts sex before creation<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> when 2 ''Kami''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto</ref> decide to have sex then which forms Japan:<br />
<br />
>At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"<br />
> She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."<br />
> Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"<br />
> Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."<br />
<br />
In Shinto belief all "all sexual love is unconditional good,"<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> sharply contrasting the Judeo-Christian association of sex with impurity and punishment. Japan's largest religion is fundamentally sex-positive which affects all aspects of Japanese relationship to sexuality. <br />
<br />
=== Apprenticeships ===<br />
<br />
Wakashu was a term from the Edo period referring to a Japanese young person who was a male beyond early childhood, but wasn't considered a man. Wakashu aged 7 to 17 wore their hair partially shaven. The boys could begin formal education, become an apprentice, or find a job. <br />
<br />
In the 12th century sons of the ruling class Samurai would be sent to Buddhist monasteries for education. As acolytes, the sons were introduced to the ''nanshuko'' tradition by older monks. The samurai expanded ''nanshuoku'' out of the monasteries and into the cities. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Wakashudo ====<br />
The samurai version was called wakashudō. Boys would be apprenticed to an older man who taught them life skills, martial arts, and social skills. The pair would formalize a "brotherhood contract" <br />
<br />
>"The idea was that this wakashudō relationship should have a 'mutually ennobling effect' on the pair. They were expected to 'assist each other in feudal duties in honor-driven obligations such as duels and vendettas. Although sex between the couple was expected to end when the boy came of age, the relationship would, ideally, develop into a lifelong bond of friendship. At the same time, sexual activity with women was not barred (for either party), and once the boy came of age, both were free to seek other wakashū lovers." - Gregory Pflugfelder <ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref><br />
<br />
The tradition and it's reception as a cultural institution echoes [Greek Love|Greek Love] in that it was considered a high-class behavior which eventually expanded to the merchant class who took on servant boys and apprentices.<br />
<br />
=== Modern Age of Consent Policy Changes ===<br />
<br />
Japan's age of consent is currently 13 years old as of 2023. A Japanese Justice Ministry panel recently proposed to raise that age to 16 <ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref>. Hiranao Honda has objected to raising Japan’s age of consent from 13 to 16 arguing that "12- and 20-year-olds can have serious relationships,” and "Japan’s age of consent is not that low compared to other nations." According to him raising the age of consent in unnecessary. <br />
<br />
=== Artistic Genres featuring child romance ===<br />
[[Shota]] features romantic drawings of pubescent and putrescent boys and [[Lolicon]] is similar art involving girls. This includes manga, anime, and other media representations. <br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg|thumb|Athletic boy drawn in shota style]]<br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a [Japanese contraction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words "Japanese abbreviated and contracted words") of _Shōtarō complex_ (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from _[Tetsujin 28-go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go "Tetsujin 28-go")_.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon#cite_note-Otaku_Sexuality_p.236-3) who is considered a beautiful young boy or bishounen. <br />
<br />
<br />
![[Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg]]<br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a [Japanese contraction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words "Japanese abbreviated and contracted words") of _Shōtarō complex_ (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from _[Tetsujin 28-go![[Bishounen.jpg]]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go "Tetsujin 28-go")_.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon#cite_note-Otaku_Sexuality_p.236-3) who is considered a beautiful young boy or bishounen. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg|thumb|Soccer player boy drawn in anime or shota style]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Bishounen.jpg|thumb|right|A beautiful boy drawn in anime style wearing a suit and holding his face in his hands]]<br />
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<div>== Japan ==<br />
<br />
Japan has a long rich history of [[Wakashudou|Wakashudou (boylove)]], homosexuality, and bisexuality that was influenced by the history of Shinto and Buddist cultural traditions. In the modern era Japan has several genres of art that feature the sexual exploration of characters with youthful and/or child-like features including [[Shota]], [[Lolicon|lolicon]], [[Bishōnen|bishōnen]], boys love, and shounen'ai. <br />
<br />
=== Buddhism ===<br />
Japan's tradition Buddhist tradition includes the practice of ''nanshouku'' where "an older Buddhist monk called the ''nenja'' would take on a prepubescent boy, called the ''chigo'', as his acolyte." Later, the samurai brought this tradition out of the monasteries and into the public where it was known as ''Wakashudou''. In ''wakashudō'', prepubescent boys would be apprenticed to an older man. He would learn martial arts, life skills, and, if the boy agreed, be the man's lover until he became an adult.<br />
<br />
Recently Japan has wrestled with it's relationship to minor attraction, torn between it's own traditions and modern western efforts to criminalize minor attraction. In 2023, Japan has "the lowest age of consent<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkzj/japan-age-of-consent-sex</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref> in developed countries, and the lowest in the G7 group."^[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519] There is a proposal to raise the age of consent to 16 to align more closely with modern western laws.<br />
<br />
=== Shinto Influences Traditional Perspective on Sexuality ===<br />
<br />
Japan's oldest major religion, ''Shinto'' puts sex before creation<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> when 2 ''Kami''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto</ref> decide to have sex then which forms Japan:<br />
<br />
>At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"<br />
> She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."<br />
> Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"<br />
> Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."<br />
<br />
In Shinto belief all "all sexual love is unconditional good,"<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> sharply contrasting the Judeo-Christian association of sex with impurity and punishment. Japan's largest religion is fundamentally sex-positive which affects all aspects of Japanese relationship to sexuality. <br />
<br />
=== Apprenticeships ===<br />
<br />
Wakashu was a term from the Edo period referring to a Japanese young person who was a male beyond early childhood, but wasn't considered a man. Wakashu aged 7 to 17 wore their hair partially shaven. The boys could begin formal education, become an apprentice, or find a job. <br />
<br />
In the 12th century sons of the ruling class Samurai would be sent to Buddhist monasteries for education. As acolytes, the sons were introduced to the ''nanshuko'' tradition by older monks. The samurai expanded ''nanshuoku'' out of the monasteries and into the cities. <br />
<br />
[[File:P22-flanagan-sexual-a-20161120.jpg|thumb|Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right)]]<br />
<br />
==== Wakashudo ====<br />
The samurai version was called wakashudō. Boys would be apprenticed to an older man who taught them life skills, martial arts, and social skills. The pair would formalize a "brotherhood contract" <br />
<br />
>"The idea was that this wakashudō relationship should have a 'mutually ennobling effect' on the pair. They were expected to 'assist each other in feudal duties in honor-driven obligations such as duels and vendettas. Although sex between the couple was expected to end when the boy came of age, the relationship would, ideally, develop into a lifelong bond of friendship. At the same time, sexual activity with women was not barred (for either party), and once the boy came of age, both were free to seek other wakashū lovers." - Gregory Pflugfelder <ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref><br />
<br />
The tradition and it's reception as a cultural institution echoes [Greek Love|Greek Love] in that it was considered a high-class behavior which eventually expanded to the merchant class who took on servant boys and apprentices.<br />
<br />
=== Modern Age of Consent Policy Changes ===<br />
<br />
Japan's age of consent is currently 13 years old as of 2023. A Japanese Justice Ministry panel recently proposed to raise that age to 16 <ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref>. Hiranao Honda has objected to raising Japan’s age of consent from 13 to 16 arguing that "12- and 20-year-olds can have serious relationships,” and "Japan’s age of consent is not that low compared to other nations." According to him raising the age of consent in unnecessary. <br />
<br />
=== Artistic Genres featuring child romance ===<br />
[[Shota]] features romantic drawings of pubescent and putrescent boys and [[Lolicon]] is similar art involving girls. This includes manga, anime, and other media representations. <br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg|thumb|Athletic boy drawn in shota style]]<br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a [Japanese contraction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words "Japanese abbreviated and contracted words") of _Shōtarō complex_ (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from _[Tetsujin 28-go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go "Tetsujin 28-go")_.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon#cite_note-Otaku_Sexuality_p.236-3) who is considered a beautiful young boy or bishounen. <br />
<br />
<br />
![[Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:P22-flanagan-sexual-a-20161120.jpg|thumb|Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg|thumb|Athletic boy drawn in shota style]]<br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a [Japanese contraction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words "Japanese abbreviated and contracted words") of _Shōtarō complex_ (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from _[Tetsujin 28-go![[Bishounen.jpg]]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go "Tetsujin 28-go")_.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon#cite_note-Otaku_Sexuality_p.236-3) who is considered a beautiful young boy or bishounen. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg|thumb|Soccer player boy drawn in anime or shota style]]<br />
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[[File:Bishounen.jpg|thumb|right|A beautiful boy drawn in anime style wearing a suit and holding his face in his hands]]<br />
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<div>Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right)</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pederasty_in_Japanese_culture&diff=21646Pederasty in Japanese culture2023-06-27T02:35:00Z<p>Vizzi: </p>
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<div>== Japan ==<br />
<br />
Japan has a long rich history of [[Wakashudou|Wakashudou (boylove)]], homosexuality, and bisexuality that was influenced by the history of Shinto and Buddist cultural traditions. In the modern era Japan has several genres of art that feature the sexual exploration of characters with youthful and/or child-like features including [[Shota]], [[Lolicon|lolicon]], [[Bishōnen|bishōnen]], boys love, and shounen'ai. <br />
<br />
=== Buddhism ===<br />
Japan's tradition Buddhist tradition includes the practice of ''nanshouku'' where "an older Buddhist monk called the ''nenja'' would take on a prepubescent boy, called the ''chigo'', as his acolyte." Later, the samurai brought this tradition out of the monasteries and into the public where it was known as ''Wakashudou''. In ''wakashudō'', prepubescent boys would be apprenticed to an older man. He would learn martial arts, life skills, and, if the boy agreed, be the man's lover until he became an adult.<br />
<br />
Recently Japan has wrestled with it's relationship to minor attraction, torn between it's own traditions and modern western efforts to criminalize minor attraction. In 2023, Japan has "the lowest age of consent<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkzj/japan-age-of-consent-sex</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref> in developed countries, and the lowest in the G7 group."^[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519] There is a proposal to raise the age of consent to 16 to align more closely with modern western laws.<br />
<br />
=== Shinto Influences Traditional Perspective on Sexuality ===<br />
<br />
Japan's oldest major religion, ''Shinto'' puts sex before creation<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> when 2 ''Kami''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto</ref> decide to have sex then which forms Japan:<br />
<br />
>At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"<br />
> She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."<br />
> Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"<br />
> Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."<br />
<br />
In Shinto belief all "all sexual love is unconditional good,"<ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref> sharply contrasting the Judeo-Christian association of sex with impurity and punishment. Japan's largest religion is fundamentally sex-positive which affects all aspects of Japanese relationship to sexuality. <br />
<br />
=== Apprenticeships ===<br />
<br />
Wakashu was a term from the Edo period referring to a Japanese young person who was a male beyond early childhood, but wasn't considered a man. Wakashu aged 7 to 17 wore their hair partially shaven. The boys could begin formal education, become an apprentice, or find a job. <br />
<br />
In the 12th century sons of the ruling class Samurai would be sent to Buddhist monasteries for education. As acolytes, the sons were introduced to the ''nanshuko'' tradition by older monks. The samurai expanded ''nanshuoku'' out of the monasteries and into the cities. <br />
<br />
[<br />
Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right). | PUBLIC DOMAIN <br />
<br />
<br />
==== Wakashudo ====<br />
The samurai version was called wakashudō. Boys would be apprenticed to an older man who taught them life skills, martial arts, and social skills. The pair would formalize a "brotherhood contract" <br />
<br />
>"The idea was that this wakashudō relationship should have a 'mutually ennobling effect' on the pair. They were expected to 'assist each other in feudal duties in honor-driven obligations such as duels and vendettas. Although sex between the couple was expected to end when the boy came of age, the relationship would, ideally, develop into a lifelong bond of friendship. At the same time, sexual activity with women was not barred (for either party), and once the boy came of age, both were free to seek other wakashū lovers." - Gregory Pflugfelder <ref>https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/</ref><br />
<br />
The tradition and it's reception as a cultural institution echoes [Greek Love|Greek Love] in that it was considered a high-class behavior which eventually expanded to the merchant class who took on servant boys and apprentices.<br />
<br />
=== Modern Age of Consent Policy Changes ===<br />
<br />
Japan's age of consent is currently 13 years old as of 2023. A Japanese Justice Ministry panel recently proposed to raise that age to 16 <ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519</ref>. Hiranao Honda has objected to raising Japan’s age of consent from 13 to 16 arguing that "12- and 20-year-olds can have serious relationships,” and "Japan’s age of consent is not that low compared to other nations." According to him raising the age of consent in unnecessary. <br />
<br />
=== Artistic Genres featuring child romance ===<br />
[[Shota]] features romantic drawings of pubescent and putrescent boys and [[Lolicon]] is similar art involving girls. This includes manga, anime, and other media representations. <br />
<br />
![[Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg]]<br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a [Japanese contraction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words "Japanese abbreviated and contracted words") of _Shōtarō complex_ (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from _[Tetsujin 28-go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go "Tetsujin 28-go")_.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon#cite_note-Otaku_Sexuality_p.236-3) who is considered a beautiful young boy or bishounen. <br />
<br />
<br />
![[Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg]]<br />
<br />
![[Bishounen.jpg]]<br />
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<div># Japan (NG Article Text)<br />
Japan has a long rich history of [[#Wakashudou: The "Way of Adolescent Boys"|Wakashudou (boylove)]], homosexuality, and bisexuality that was influenced by the history of Shinto and Buddist cultural traditions. In the modern era Japan has several genres of art that feature the sexual exploration of characters with youthful and/or child-like features including [[#Shota]], [[#lolicon]], [[#bishōnen]], boys love, and shounen'ai. <br />
<br />
## Buddism<br />
Japan's tradition Buddhist tradition includes the practice of [[#nanshouku]] where "an older Buddhist monk called the **_nenja_** would take on a prepubescent boy, called the **_chigo_**, as his acolyte." Later, the samurai brought this tradition out of the monasteries and into the public where it was known as [[#Wakashudou: The "Way of Adolescent Boys"]]. In _wakashudō_, prepubescent boys would be apprenticed to an older man. He would learn martial arts, life skills, and, if the boy agreed, be the man's lover until he became an adult.<br />
<br />
Recently Japan has wrestled with it's relationship to minor attraction, torn between it's own traditions and modern western efforts to criminalize minor attraction. In 2023, Japan has "the lowest age of [[#Current Discussions around Changing Age of Consent|consent]] in developed countries, and the lowest in the G7 group."^[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519] There is a proposal to raise the age of consent to 16 to align more closely with modern western laws.<br />
<br />
### Shinto Influences Traditional Perspective on Sexuality<br />
<br />
Japan's oldest major religion, [[#Shinto]] puts sex before creation^[https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/] when 2 _kami_^[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto] decide to have sex then which forms Japan:<br />
<br />
>At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"<br />
> She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."<br />
> Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"<br />
> Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."<br />
<br />
In Shinto belief all "all sexual love is unconditional good,"^[https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/] sharply contrasting the Judeo-Christian association of sex with impurity and punishment. Japan's largest religion is fundamentally sex-positive which affects all aspects of Japanese relationship to sexuality. <br />
<br />
## Apprenticeships<br />
<br />
Wakashu was a term from the Edo period referring to a Japanese young person who was a male beyond early childhood, but wasn't considered a man. Wakashu aged 7 to 17 wore their hair partially shaven. The boys could begin formal education, become an apprentice, or find a job. <br />
<br />
In the 12th century sons of the ruling class Samauri would be sent to Buddist monasteries for education. As acolytes, the sons were introduced to the nanshuko tradition by older monks. The samurai expanded nanshuoku out of the monasteries and into the cities. <br />
<br />
[<br />
Young love: A woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu (circa 1740) shows two actors portraying a relationship between a wakashū (adolescent male) and an adult man (right). | PUBLIC DOMAIN <br />
<br />
<br />
### Wakashddo<br />
The samauri version was called Wakashudo. Boys would be apprenticed to an older man who taught them life skills, martial arts, and social skills. The pair would formalize a "brotherhood contract" <br />
<br />
>"The idea was that this wakashudō relationship should have a 'mutually ennobling effect' on the pair. They were expected to 'assist each other in feudal duties in honor-driven obligations such as duels and vendettas. Although sex between the couple was expected to end when the boy came of age, the relationship would, ideally, develop into a lifelong bond of friendship. At the same time, sexual activity with women was not barred (for either party), and once the boy came of age, both were free to seek other wakashū lovers." -[Gregory Pflugfelder](https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/)<br />
<br />
The tradition and it's reception as a cultural institution echoes [greek love] in that it was considered a high-class behavior which eventually expanded to the merchant class who took on servant boys and apprenticices.<br />
<br />
## Modern Age of Consent Policy Changes<br />
<br />
Japan's age of consent is currently 13 years old as of 2023. A Japanese Justice Ministry panel recently proposed to raise that age to 16^[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64703519]. Hiranao Honda has objected to raising Japan’s age of consent from 13 to 16 arguing that "12- and 20-year-olds can have serious relationships,” and "Japan’s age of consent is not that low compared to other nations." Acoording to hiim raising the age of consent in unnecessary. <br />
<br />
## Artistic Genres featuring child romance<br />
[Shota]() features romantic drawings of pubescent and prebusescent boys and [Lolicon]() is similar art involving girls. This includes manga, anime, and other media representations. <br />
<br />
![[Pasted image 20230520201642.jpg]]<br />
<br />
The term "shotacon" is a [Japanese contraction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words "Japanese abbreviated and contracted words") of _Shōtarō complex_ (正太郎コンプレックス, _Shōtarō konpurekkusu_), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō (正太郎) from _[Tetsujin 28-go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go "Tetsujin 28-go")_.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon#cite_note-Otaku_Sexuality_p.236-3) who is considered a beautiful young boy or bishounen. <br />
<br />
<br />
![[Pasted image 20230520201836.jpg]]<br />
<br />
![[Bishounen.jpg]]<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishōnen<br />
<br />
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## Japanese Background & Collected Research<br />
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https://www.tofugu.com/japan/gay-samurai/<br />
**Japan's pre-modern society was one that not only tolerated homosexuality and bisexuality, but celebrated and even idealized it. In fact, it appeared to be the rule, rather than the exception, for a majority of Japan's pre-modern history.**<br />
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> At this time Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked his spouse Izanami-no-Mikoto, saying: "How is your body formed?"<br />
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> She replied, saying: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed insufficiently."<br />
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> Then Izanagi-no-Mikoto said: "My body, formed though it be formed, has one place which is formed to excess. Therefore, I would like to take that place in my body which is formed to excess and insert it into that place in your body which is formed insufficiently, and thus give birth to the land. How would this be?"<br />
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> Izanami-no-Mikoto replied, saying: "That will be good."<br />
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**In the Shinto creation story, sex precedes the birth of a nation and her people.** In Judeo-Christian religions, the acknowledgement of human sexuality and their banishment went hand in hand. It's not surprising, I suppose, that nearly every mention of the word "sex" in the Christian bible is accompanied by ideas of punishment or shame.<br />
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Shintoism's general message that "all sexual love is unconditional good," helps to set the tone (on this issue) for Japan's second main religion, Buddhism.<br />
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Basically, the attitude was one of "**If you can't figure out the whole celibacy thing in this lifetime, well, there's always the next one!" Ascension to nirvana is much less of a one-time shot than admittance into heaven, after all.**<br />
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Buddhist texts do not go into great detail explicating exactly what the 'wrong' and 'right' ways regarding sexual pleasure actually are. As with other actions, they are subject to the application of the **golden mean: '[t]he deed which causes remorse afterward and results in weeping is ill-done. The deed which causes no remorse afterwards and results in joy and happiness is well done.'"**<br />
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Although present, Tantric sexual imagery which involved the unification of male and female was of marginal influence in Japan. **Far more pervasive in male Buddhist institutions was the influence of homoerotic and even homosexual imagery where beautiful acolytes were understood to embody the feminine principle.** The degree to which Buddhism tolerated same-sex sexual activity even among its ordained practitioners is clear from the popular myth that the founder of the Shingon school, Kooboo Daishi (Kuukai), introduced homosexual acts upon his return from study in China in the early ninth century. This myth was so well known that even the Portuguese traveler, Gaspar Vilela had heard it.<br />
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J**esuit records of the Catholic mission to Japan are full of rants about the ubiquity of pederastic passion among the Buddhist clergy. What particularly riled the missionaries was the widespread acceptance these practices met with among the general populace.**<br />
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the homosexual activities of Buddhist monks weren't a sex cult secret. In fact, they were very public, and the Japanese people of that time didn't care. *It made visiting westerners pretty upset, though.*<br />
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[[Culture]]<br />
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Through these debates, stories, and guides, we see samurai and monks depicted as having male lovers, female lovers, boy lovers, and cross-dressing lovers<br />
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Wakashudō was seen as a high-class thing to do, so it's only natural that we begin to see non-samurai emulating this behavior in big cities. Although technically of the lowest class, this trickle-down effect began with the merchants, as their wealth allowed them to take on servant boys and apprentices without worrying too much about the financial burden.<br />
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## Becoming "Modern"<br />
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The shift from homosexual acceptance to homosexual condemnation happened in-step with the Meiji Restoration, foreign influence being a key factor. The ruling elite of this time agreed that they must emulate the West as much as possible. In doing so, they hoped to avoid the fate of China and India, modernize, and become equals with the Western powers.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Consent&diff=18655Consent2023-03-15T06:29:34Z<p>Vizzi: </p>
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Consent is the willingness and agreement to engage in an act or proposal made by another party. Consent must be given voluntarily without the person being subject to force, coercion, or deception. Consent can be express or implied and must be given by someone with the capacity and mental competence to understand the act in question.<ref>[http://law.cornell.edu/wex/consent law.cornell.edu/wex/consent]</ref> <ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consent merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consent]</ref><br />
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Express consent is given directly in writing or spoken aloud. Implied consent is given via action or conduct.<ref>[https://www.wilsonlaw.com/blog/difference-between-express-and-implied-consent/ ilsonlaw.com/blog/difference-between-express-and-implied-consent/]</ref><ref>[https://legaldictionary.net/implied-consent/ legaldictionary.net/implied-consent/]</ref><br />
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== Limitations of Consent ==<br />
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Consent can be withdrawn at any time and under certain conditions cannot be given due to incapacity. For example, person who is severely intoxicated, under the influence of drugs, or asleep cannot give valid consent because they lack the capacity temporarily.<ref>[http://law.cornell.edu/wex/capacity law.cornell.edu/wex/capacity]</ref> Mental capacity is refers to a person's ability to understand information, make rational decisions, and express themselves.<ref>[http://law.cornell.edu/wex/mental_competence law.cornell.edu/wex/mental_competence]</ref> <br />
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Most countries have laws stipulating that people under a certain age cannot sign legal contracts and in the United States such contracts are voidable in court. Countries commonly legislate that people under a certain age cannot consent to sexual relationships subject to a variety of exceptions. "Romeo and Juliet" exceptions allow young people close in age to give consent to one another for sex. The age of consent and exceptions vary widely from country to country and within countries reflecting the arbitrary nature of age of consent laws and a misunderstanding of physiological and neurological development<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/11/20/16677180/age-consent-teenage-psychology-law-roy-moore vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/11/20/16677180/age-consent-teenage-psychology-law-roy-moore]</ref>. The same person may be legally capable of conseting to sex in one jurisdiction but not in another regardless of their individual capacity , mental competence, and willingness based solely on physical age.<ref>[https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230.html hnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230.html]</ref><br />
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''"the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals boasts three different ages of consent — Indiana: 16, Illinois: 17, and Wisconsin: 18. I defy anyone to tell me that teens in Indiana are more mature than those in Wisconsin. Maybe Indiana legislators simply don’t believe in the science of adolescent development?"<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/11/20/16677180/age-consent-teenage-psychology-law-roy-moore vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/11/20/16677180/age-consent-teenage-psychology-law-roy-moore]</ref>Heading text<br />
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Many states also make exceptions to the age of consent law for married partners who may be under the local age of consent or married, with permission of their parents, to an older partner.<ref>[https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/261-5/ shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/261-5/]</ref><br />
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== History and Modern Interpretation ==<br />
The first laws governing consent and age come from English law in 1275 where it was a misdemeanor to "ravish" a maiden below the marriageable age of 12 with or without consent.<ref>[https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230.html chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230.html]</ref> The modern descendant's of these laws violate the fundamental principal of bodily autonomy: that my body is my own for me. Age of consent laws are primarily used to pursue cases where both partners willingly agreed to sex or where the case is marginal. The cases can be pursued by district attorneys without cooperation of the minor and even over the protests of the person being 'protected' by the law. Cases of non-consensual sex could be persued under rape laws, but those laws aren't relevant to sex between willing people<ref>[https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/261-5/ houselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/261-5/]</ref>. <br />
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In the united States the youngest age of sexual consent is 16 years old in 33 states, 17 years in 6 states and 18 years in the rest. A teen who lived in Washington State could legally consent to have sex with an older partner of 22 for example, but if they traveled the next day to California, the same teen could not legally consent to sex with another 16 year old because there is no Romeo and Juliet exception in California and the age of consent is 18. Legally both teens would be committing sexual assault while simultaneously both being assaulted.<br />
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== Informed Consent ==<br />
[[Informed consent]] is a clinical term relating to medical and research situations. Patients and research participants have the right to ask questions, be given relevant information that a reasonable person would want to have to make an informed decision. The information should be in language that is understandable to them. The should be made aware that participation or treatment is voluntary.<ref>[https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/guidance/faq/informed-consent/index.html hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/guidance/faq/informed-consent/index.html]</ref> A provider seeking informed consent must judge the patient's decision making capacity and ability to understand relevant treatment information<ref>[https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/informed-consent ode-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/informed-consent]</ref>. Informed consent can be given even when an inducement such as money is involved<ref>[https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/informed-consent code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/informed-consent]</ref>. "Broad consent" refers to how consent is uses colloquially outside of clinical situations.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Consent&diff=18654Consent2023-03-15T06:22:22Z<p>Vizzi: Created page with " Consent is the willingness and agreement to engage in an act or proposal made by another party. Consent must be given voluntarily without the person being subject to force, coercion, or deception. Consent can be express or implied and must be given by someone with the capacity and mental competence to understand the act in question.<ref>[http://law.cornell.edu/wex/consent law.cornell.edu/wex/consent]</ref> <ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consent merriam..."</p>
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<div><br />
Consent is the willingness and agreement to engage in an act or proposal made by another party. Consent must be given voluntarily without the person being subject to force, coercion, or deception. Consent can be express or implied and must be given by someone with the capacity and mental competence to understand the act in question.<ref>[http://law.cornell.edu/wex/consent law.cornell.edu/wex/consent]</ref> <ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consent merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consent]</ref><br />
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Express consent is given directly in writing or spoken aloud. Implied consent is given via action or conduct.<ref>[https://www.wilsonlaw.com/blog/difference-between-express-and-implied-consent/ ilsonlaw.com/blog/difference-between-express-and-implied-consent/]</ref><ref>[https://legaldictionary.net/implied-consent/ legaldictionary.net/implied-consent/]</ref><br />
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Consent can be withdrawn at any time and under certain conditions cannot be given due to incapacity. For example, person who is severely intoxicated, under the influence of drugs, or asleep cannot give valid consent because they lack the capacity temporarily.<ref>[http://law.cornell.edu/wex/capacity law.cornell.edu/wex/capacity]</ref> Mental capacity is refers to a person's ability to understand information, make rational decisions, and express themselves.<ref>[http://law.cornell.edu/wex/mental_competence law.cornell.edu/wex/mental_competence]</ref> <br />
<br />
Most countries have laws stipulating that people under a certain age cannot sign legal contracts and in the United States such contracts are voidable in court. Countries commonly legislate that people under a certain age cannot consent to sexual relationships subject to a variety of exceptions. "Romeo and Juliet" exceptions allow young people close in age to give consent to one another for sex. The age of consent and exceptions vary widely from country to country and within countries reflecting the arbitrary nature of age of consent laws and a misunderstanding of physiological and neurological development<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/11/20/16677180/age-consent-teenage-psychology-law-roy-moore vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/11/20/16677180/age-consent-teenage-psychology-law-roy-moore]</ref>. The same person may be legally capable of conseting to sex in one jurisdiction but not in another regardless of their individual capacity , mental competence, and willingness based solely on physical age.<ref>[https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230.html hnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230.html]</ref><br />
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> "the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals boasts three different ages of consent — Indiana: 16, Illinois: 17, and Wisconsin: 18. I defy anyone to tell me that teens in Indiana are more mature than those in Wisconsin. Maybe Indiana legislators simply don’t believe in the science of adolescent development?"<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/11/20/16677180/age-consent-teenage-psychology-law-roy-moore vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/11/20/16677180/age-consent-teenage-psychology-law-roy-moore]</ref><br />
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The first laws governing consent and age come from English law in 1275 where it was a misdemeanor to "ravish" a maiden below the marriageable age of 12 with or without consent.<ref>[https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230.html chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230.html]</ref> The modern descendant's of these laws violate the fundamental principal of bodily autonomy: that my body is my own for me. Age of consent laws are primarily used to pursue cases where both partners willingly agreed to sex or where the case is marginal. The cases can be pursued by district attorneys without cooperation of the minor and even over the protests of the person being 'protected' by the law. Cases of non-consensual sex could be persued under rape laws, but those laws aren't relevant to sex between willing people<ref>[https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/261-5/ houselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/261-5/]</ref>. <br />
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Many states also make exceptions to the age of consent law for married partners who may be under the local age of consent or married, with permission of their parents, to an older partner.<ref>[https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/261-5/ shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/261-5/]</ref><br />
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In the united States the youngest age of sexual consent is 16 years old in 33 states, 17 years in 6 states and 18 years in the rest. A teen who lived in Washington State could legally consent to have sex with an older partner of 22 for example, but if they traveled the next day to California, the same teen could not legally consent to sex with another 16 year old because there is no Romeo and Juliet exception in California and the age of consent is 18. Legally both teens would be committing sexual assault while simultaneously both being assaulted.<br />
<br />
Informed consent is a clinical term relating to medical and research situations. Patients and research participants have the right to ask questions, be given relevant information that a reasonable person would want to have to make an informed decision. The information should be in language that is understandable to them. The should be made aware that participation or treatment is voluntary.<ref>[https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/guidance/faq/informed-consent/index.html hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/guidance/faq/informed-consent/index.html]</ref> A provider seeking informed consent must judge the patient's decision making capacity and ability to understand relevant treatment information<ref>[https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/informed-consent ode-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/informed-consent]</ref>. Informed consent can be given even when an inducement such as money is involved<ref>[https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/informed-consent code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/informed-consent]</ref>. "Broad consent" refers to how consent is uses colloquially outside of clinical situations.</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Hajo_Ortil&diff=15100Hajo Ortil2022-10-18T02:38:31Z<p>Vizzi: </p>
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<div>Hans Joachim "Hajo" Ortil (10 January 1905 - 12 July 1983) Ortil was a German FKK naturist, photographer, and teacher. During WWII he made seculars against the Hitler regime and was imprisoned. He ran a youth club in the summers called the Pirates an outdoors scouting and boating club for youth. <br />
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The Hanseatic Pirates were, a naturist youthful canoeing club from Bremen, Germany. The club always included boys and girls. The group travelled extensively as far as taking holidays from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. Ortil was adored by his students who visited him yearly in his old age. He says he never had problems with any of his campers. <br />
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He was a teacher of English and physical education in a Gymnasium (upper secondary school) in Bremen. Ortil studied English and Physical Education in Göttingen. In 1932 he completed his doctorate in English with a thesis about George Berkeley und die englische Literatur.<br />
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Hajo published a photobook Pan and Ortil's canoe pirates 1960<br />
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Ortil released a number of photo projects including a number of books published by <br />
- Hellas Ewig unsre Liebe. FKK.Helios. (1958., 1958)^[1]<br />
- Amazonen. In Sonne und Baltenwind. (1955., 1955)^[1]<br />
- Das Waldriff im Meer.(1956., 1956)^[1]<br />
- Noch sprudeln die Quellen Arkadiens (1958., 1958)^[1]<br />
- Hellas ewig unsere Liebe - Sonderausgabe der Monatszeitschrift Helios.(1958)^[2]<br />
- Das Waldriff im Meer. Idyllische Kajakfahrten in die Felsen- und Inselwildnisse Dalmatiens (1956)^[2]<br />
- Und Pan lebt doch! Wir fanden ihn an den Heide- und Weidesäumen der Hase und Ems.<br />
- Noch sprudeln die Quellen Arkadiens. Sonderausgabe der Zeitschrift Helios.<br />
- Es brausen Bura und Mestral.<br />
- Noch sprudeln die Quellen Arkadiens<br />
[1] : Lauf, Zitzmann<br />
[2] : Published by Lauf bei Nürnberg, Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, 1956<br />
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There were 800 pirates in the course of time</div>Vizzihttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Hajo_Ortil&diff=15099Hajo Ortil2022-10-18T02:35:22Z<p>Vizzi: Created page with "Hans Joachim "Hajo" Ortil (10 January 1905 - 12 July 1983) Ortil was a German naturist, photographer, and teacher. During WWII he made seculars against the Hitler regime and was imprisoned. He ran a youth club in the summers called the Pirates an outdoors scouting and boating club for youth. The Hanseatic Pirates were, a naturist youthful canoeing club from Bremen, Germany. The club always included boys and girls. The group travelled extensively as far as taking holida..."</p>
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<div>Hans Joachim "Hajo" Ortil (10 January 1905 - 12 July 1983) Ortil was a German naturist, photographer, and teacher. During WWII he made seculars against the Hitler regime and was imprisoned. He ran a youth club in the summers called the Pirates an outdoors scouting and boating club for youth. <br />
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The Hanseatic Pirates were, a naturist youthful canoeing club from Bremen, Germany. The club always included boys and girls. The group travelled extensively as far as taking holidays from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. Ortil was adored t<br />
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Ortil studied English and Physical Education in Göttingen. In 1932 he completed his doctorate in English with a thesis about George Berkeley und die englische Literatur.<br />
<br />
Hajo published a photobook Pan and Ortil's canoe pirates 1960<br />
<br />
Ortil released a number of photo projects including a number of books published by <br />
- Hellas Ewig unsre Liebe. FKK.Helios. (1958., 1958)^[1]<br />
- Amazonen. In Sonne und Baltenwind. (1955., 1955)^[1]<br />
- Das Waldriff im Meer.(1956., 1956)^[1]<br />
- Noch sprudeln die Quellen Arkadiens (1958., 1958)^[1]<br />
- Hellas ewig unsere Liebe - Sonderausgabe der Monatszeitschrift Helios.(1958)^[2]<br />
- Das Waldriff im Meer. Idyllische Kajakfahrten in die Felsen- und Inselwildnisse Dalmatiens (1956)^[2]<br />
[1] : Lauf, Zitzmann<br />
[2] : Published by Lauf bei Nürnberg, Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, 1956<br />
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There were 800 pirates in the course of time<br />
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teacher of English and physical education in a Gymnasium (upper secondary school) in Bremen<br />
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Noch sprudeln die Quellen Arkadiens<br />
Ortil, Hajo:<br />
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Published by Lauf bei Nürnberg, Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, 1958<br />
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Es brausen Bura und Mestral.<br />
Ortil, Hajo.<br />
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Published by Lauf, Zitzmann, 1956., 1956<br />
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Noch sprudeln die Quellen Arkadiens. Sonderausgabe der Zeitschrift Helios.<br />
FKK.- ORTIL, Hajo:<br />
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Published by Lauf (Zitzmann), 1958., 1958<br />
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Und Pan lebt doch! Wir fanden ihn an den Heide- und Weidesäumen der Hase und Ems.<br />
FKK.- ORTIL, Hajo:</div>Vizzi